Here’s a little story of how my photo holiday cards from last year came to be from a vacation I recently took in Italy…

It seems like just yesterday that my family and I traveled to beautiful Italy to celebrate my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. Up until that time I was not what anyone would call a picture taker; I always left the photography to others.  However, I realized that I may never have another chance to visit Rome, Venice, or my Grandparents home town so I needed to make sure I had a camera to memorialize the wonderful memories we were going to make.

We started our vacation off snapping pictures of the eight of us dining in a vineyard just outside of Rome.  Our journey took us from one amazing photographic place to the next – from Florence and the “David” to Pisa’s Leaning Tower to our hotel built into the side of a mountain in Assisi to canals of Venice.  I have the most amazing photos of us visiting my Dad’s cousins in Positano (he hadn’t seen them in over 30 years).  And, our cousins owned a hotel that was famous (scenes from “Under the Tuscan Sun” were shot there), so we were anxious to take pictures not only of the family we hadn’t seen but of the famous balcony from the movie and the original frescoes in the hotel.  That first Christmas after our trip I decided to use that amazing picture from Positano as my photo Holiday cards so everyone could once again enjoy our once in a lifetime vacation in Italy.