You
may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a
good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught
up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.
Thousands
of photos, enough to keep the old Kodak photographic film stock flying off the
shelves, except all digital, so instead they're free -- 55% of them blurry, 35%
not blurry but stupid, 6% already used on our main Rome
page, 3% unintelligible anyway, and here are some bits and pieces from the
remaining 1%.

Negotiations

Santa
in the City

Anita, Garibaldi's
Significant Other

Juxtaposition
of old and ephemeral

Guy-bird
with sword posing as a cell-phone antenna

Sneak
Peek

Egyptian
Pharoah preparing to barf

Gold
guy turning a crank in Rome

Taking
an important call

A
hunting accident

True
love on video

The
Church waiting for the secularized Flock to put bums back into chairs

The
Papal Guards waiting for tea time, and a shower

John
Keats. Percy Shelley. Arnold Museum. All the Romantic icons.

Tiber
harvest

Tourist
attraction

Ohmygod!

Decisions
at the market

Decisions
at the front door

The
remote isn't working -- probably the battery's gone on it.

I
changed the battery. He's not using it right.

I
put the old battery back in it.

I
don't feel all that well.

Midnight
Shoe Sales

The
Fungus Stairs

Panini
caldi, enough to keep an army in the field for a week

Panini,
Italy's gift to the world.

Take
Away. Giudaico Romanesche Specialita.

Tell
it to their victims in Gaza.

Ancient
Roman pizzeria

Don't
be alarmed. We're just here to help.

Lavarapido!

The
beer with the green felt hat.