This document provides a summary of locations visited during a sabbatical in 2013, including California, Maine, Vermont, Italy, and Venice. Key places discussed include the author's mother's hospice in Palo Alto; the author's home in Cushing, Maine on the St. George River and the Barred Islands; the author's family home in Manchester, Vermont; and various locations in Italy such as Florence, Siena, Volterra, San Gimignano, Montepulciano, Assisi, Bologna, and Venice. The document consists primarily of photos from these locations with brief captions.

1. SABBATICAL CONTINUES 2013
California, Vermont, Maine & Italy

2. Palo Alto, California

5. My mom, beginning her third year in hospice

6. My mom’s “family gallery”

7. Maine: Cushing, Penobscot Bay,
Deer Isle, the Barred Islands

8. Sunrise over the St. George River

9. The St. George River from my house in Cushing Maine

10. Penobscot Bay

13. The Barred Islands

19. The Barred Islands’ Conservation Easement

22. Sunset over Penobscot Bay

25. Manchester, Vermont
Wickham family house from 1837

32. Sorting the family spoons

34. The Green Mountains and the Battenkill River Valley

36. Holly on the heights

38. Italy

39. Florence

40. Santa Croce

41. The Duomo

43. San Marco Monastery

44. Fra Angelico Frescoes in San Marco
The Annunciation, the Nativity in a monk’s cell

45. Masaccio Frescoes @ San Carmine

46. Florence from the heights of the Boboli Gardens

47. Spannochia:
12th century farm & artists’ workshop

48. Southwest of Siena in the mountains

49. Spannochia Terrace and View

50. 12th century Torre farmhouse - my bedroom and view

52. Our art studio and the chapel

53. Farmhouse terrace & stairs

57. My drawing of the monument oak

58. San Galgano Hermitage, inside & out

59. San Galgano Cistercian Monastery Ruin

61. Siena

63. Duccio di Boninsegna’s 14th century altarpiece, La Maesta

65. Some of my Spannochia art workshop participants in Siena’s Campo

66. Tuscan Hill Towns
Volterra

67. 2nd Century BCE Etruscan sarcophagus in Volterra

68. San Gemignano

69. Back on the farm
12th century Torre farmhouse

70. My fanciful version

71. Spannochia barnyard

73. Three-line dooryard sketch exercise

75. My studio work space

76. View of Torre farmhouse from the Spannochia castle terrace

78. Montepulciano

80. Tadeo di Bartolo Altar – Coronation of the Virgin – Montepulciano Duomo

81. Montepulciano on its hill

82. The living Benedictine monastery of Monte Olivetto Maggiore

83. Cloister and Luca Signorelli’s fresco of St. Benedict

84. Spannochia - a working farm
sustainable oak harvest, vineyards & olive orchards

86. Spannochia’s rare breed of Cinta Senese pigs

87. Assisi – St. Francis’ hometown

88. Assisi – hillside town of archways and piazzas

90. Churches, the Virgin, Francis are everywhere in Assisi

91. And of course, St. Francis’ huge Basilica

92. San Damiano in the olive orchards, where Jesus called Francis to his work –
from the crucifix over the altar, he said, “Francis, restore my church!”

95. Last stop in Assisi -the Porziuncola,
which holds Francis’ whole tiny stone church inside,
like the pit that holds life at the heart of a peach

96. Back at Spannochia, the last look

98. The vineyard and walnut tree next to Torre farmhouse

100. Farewell to Spannochia

104. Bologna, the view from MAMbo modern art museum

105. The contemplative work of Giorgio Morandi

106. Venice

107. Classics of Venice: San Marco and a gondolier on the Grand Canal

108. Piazza San Marco and a Venetian mask shop

109. Giadomenico Tiepolo’s Resurrection & the colors of Venice

110. Venetian rooflines

111. The Guggenheim Modern Art Collection on the Grand Canal

112. Odilon Redon’s apocalyptic angel & Camille Pisarro’s pointillist light

113. The Grand Canal

114. Our small canal off the Accademia

115. The view of Campo Santa Margherita from the roof of one of our apartments

116. Sketching the same view of Campo Santa Margherita

117. A final meeting of the workshop participants

118. Farewell to Venice

120. The Dolomites, from the plane home