{How Blogs Work}

How blogs work: Just had to share this with you as it is so TRUE!
It is hard for producing your own original content, your own photos and doing your own styling.
Yet there are so many out there that are showing off someone else's feathers. 
Plagiarism seems to become the norm. How do you feel about this? 

Do you share mostly original content on your blog or things created by others? 

Doghousediaries link to photo

{Look What is Blooming NOW in Our Garden}

• Besides our white and pink Camellias, we have also some yellow in our garden. Our Leatherleaf Mahonia Berberidaceae is blooming right now. 
• Look what a beauty in our garden, on the edge where the creek streams. 
• Also the Wintersweet - Chimonanthus praecox (Calycanthus p.) (C. fragrans) is blooming mid winter, see further below... 

• Blooms of the Leatherleaf Mahonia Berberidaceae (barberry Family)

• This shrub grows on the edge of our garden, alongside the creek where we also planted mondo grass to prevent it from erosion.

• You can see the water from the creek...

• The fragrant flowers of our Wintersweet - Chimonanthus praecox (Calycanthus p.) (C. fragrans)

• This shrub is planted next to our gazebo.

• Stepping a bit further back so you also can see our home...

• This is the view on the pond side...
• Do you have anything blooming right now?

Related link:
{Our Leatherleaf Mahonia Berberidaceae (barberry Family)} | previous post by me
{Our Wintersweet - Chimonanthus praecox} | previous post by me

{My First Trip to the City of Romance | VENICE, ITALY}

On my Venice, Italy blog header, I got several comments so let me show you my very First Trip to the City of Romance | VENICE, ITALY. Indeed, that was quite some years ago, as a matter of fact this was thirty years ago, early September. It also was my very first International Consulting trip. As usual, we always managed to combine business with pleasure while indulging in the fabulous Italian culture. 

This is what I used for my header at present, a little bit cropped but the very same photo.

Looking at Piazza San Marco in Venice.

Now, travel with me by car from The Netherlands, via Germany, Austria into Northern Italy...

Snacking on an apple at the Brenner Pass, the border between Austria and Italy with a tunnel through the Alps. 

The weather in the Alps is always quite different from the coastal area in Italy on the Adriatic...

Destination JESOLO & VENEZIA or VENICE in English...

Dreaming alongside the River Piave...

I had no idea  that I once would WORK & LIVE there!

Our VW Golf with the sticker HORST from my hometown in The Netherlands - NL

Here I am, standing in bikini, on the balcony of our apartment in Jesolo, a beach resort near Venice on the Adiatric Sea...

By boat we went from Jesolo to VENICE, the Queen of the Adiatric! 

The Gondolas from Venice...

Do you see our Moby Dick Venezia coming?

Wow, admiring all the architecture around Piazza San Marco...

Taking it all in... Proudly wearing my Italian PE® Florence purse that I got at a wholesale store in The Netherlands, Bohamij B.V., with my pass on Mom & Dad's Market Garden business. 

I still do have that quality purse!

Like the pigeons, I would love to get high... for a broader view!

Behind me you see Palazza Ducales.

Enjoying a small ice cream...

We ate HUGE coupes with ice cream in Jesolo, that was during my years of ice cream addiction!

A one day visit is by far not enough for Venice...

You can shop till you drop!

Standing on one of Venice's 400 foot bridges...

So that was my First Trip to the City of Romance | VENICE, ITALY

Birthplace of explorer Marco Polo and composer Antonio Vivaldi...

Have you been to Venice?

Many visitors here...

From Venice we went to Pederobba where I did some consulting work for Funghi del Montello.

We also visited Asolo and Montegrappa, with 1775 m the highest peak of the Veneto Prealp region between the rivers Brenta and Piave.

In Possagno we visited the Mausuleum, a neoclassic imitation of the Pantheon in Rome by and for Antonio Canova the famous sculptor who did e.g. The Three Graces. 

Possagno was also the birthplace of Antonio Canova and he's buried there in his own Mausuleum, Il Tempio.

For a fabulous 360° view of Antonio Canova's Temple in Possagno you can click on the previous hyperlink. All four pink ones  are hyperlinks, as usual in my posts.

Hope you enjoyed going to Venice and Il Veneto with me!