Sunday, 30 november 2025, San Francisco

We came home on Thanksgiving Day. Taking BART from SFO and walking home from our neighborhood station in the middle of the afternoon definitely felt like “off-season,” unusually quiet and unpopulated — quite different from Italy.

This post is a collection of photos and recollections that I didn’t send earlier. First, some of the nice art at SFO, high on a big wall at a departure gate in the International terminal:

And here are a few more display windows, starting with a lovely cake in Milan:

and two windows from Florence:

From a sidewalk in Milan, pointers to AUTHORIZED and PROHIBITED art:

We were surprised and enchanted by a temporary exhibit in the Florence Duomo museum. It was a video with music but no narration, showing the artist in various locations, most of them windy, wrapping himself in a metallic space blanket. This is the ad poster for the video:

Finally, from the Metro in Rome, a cheerful ad for Lego sets:

. . . and that’s it for this trip. Thanks for reading.