“Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art”.
— Mark Helprin, Ellis Island

Tagged: fleeting pleasures, nostalgia, Rome, sunset, Tiber
And now…. close your eyes, lift your face to the sunshine, and imagine you are back there at sunset by the river…..