A few weeks ago I took a day trip with my parents and their friends to Little Italy, San Diego - an unexplored place in a familiar city.
We rode by train. Down the coast to Union Station, where we met with colored tile, old radiators, window panes and light through a Spanish arcade.
It was sunny and blue enough for a new summer dress. Pink and white stripes and lots of fabric in the skirt - to my detriment with wind gusts off the nearby harbor.
We strolled through the late morning's street market and bought daisies for two dollars a bunch.
The afternoon we filled with lunch and a tour; painted ceilings and stained glass, chocolate gelato, neighborhood history and being tourists in our own backyard.
With the end of the day, mom and I explored two more blocks plus a coffee shop, rejoining the others on the 7 o'clock train for all points north.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Little Italy
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Very picturesque. :) Thank you for sharing Little Italy. My cousins live in San Diego. I was there last August 2008. Maybe I could visit it someday soon. I would love to see it! :) Glad you enjoyed your 'Italian adventure'.
This is such a beautiful post! What a wonderful trip.
I love your little scrapbook pages. Your photographs are stunning. And that dress is very pretty!
Polly xxx
Looks wonderful!!!
Beautiful pictures... as usual!
Best wishes, e Tante Belle Cose
(From Big Italy)
K.
PilliPilli Handmade
What a LOVELY post! I am instantly drawn to your pretty pictures layed out on your torn paper background with the masking tape, coffee cup ring stains, and labels. What a brilliant way of blogging with photos! L-O-V-E IT!!!!
Your blog is AWESOME! I got here by way of decor8 and I think I am visiting you permanently :)
So very lovely! Is that a digital scrap book? So beautiful.
These pages - your whole site! - are so dreamy & beautiful ♥
looks like a wonderful trip!
This is so perfect. No other words
Such lovely images--they're making me ache to go back to San Diego! :)
beautiful photos!!
Wow... so beautiful :)
How delightful! I feel swept away by that old train into Little Italy along with you and your family. That pink dress is magical.
I love everything that you post here. all things quaint. :)
i like this post especially :)
sounds like the perfect day.
Beautiful posts as always. This blog is a gem! I am always amazed with your artwork. Keep it up!
Such a beautiful post.. You've had a great time!! Loved it!
I love these kinds of days. Lazy and strolling and dreamy.The pictures create that wonderful feel.
I love your journal pages for this day! Sounds like so much fun!
i adore your blog. you are so creative and have such neat things to say!
Lovely illustrated notes on this post. Hop along to my Blog and see I've tagged you today.
Blessings, Star
Oh, this makes me SO homesick! Your photos are gorgeous -- I can almost feel the delicious warmth of the San Diego sun and the sparkling quality of the breeze coming up from the water. Thank you for sharing your adventure and your lovely photos...it's the perfect antidote to the thunderstorms we're having up north today!
I was working till about a minute ago with the music of an old Spanish Duo(singing in English:D) playing in the background,so it seems just right to end my rather long day with visuals from a day spent at Little Italy.
molto bene!
very beautiful <3
SO much beauty! I love all of the soft and serene colors. Incredible work!
your photos are so so amazing!
Livy, I work two blocks from SD's Little Italy and go there all the time! I've always thought it was a great little neighborhood, but your photos and presentation make me realize how wonderful it really is.
You must have gone on a Saturday, if you went to the Mercado...it just started about a year ago and is such a nice little farmer's market! I think it might rival the best one in the city, in Hillcrest, sometime soon...
Any other Field Journal readers in San Diego by chance? Would love to get in touch!
um, your photos are INCREDIBLE. i love every detail + all the design. they are soooo pretty! hope you don't mind, i posted one on my blog for my happy friday post.
xo.
everything looks lovely. btw, what software do you use for the editing? :)
*I use photoshop for most everything blog related.
so lovely, thanks for sharing
great photo's! I live in little italy and you certainly captured the spirit in an incredible way
what a yummy day! and your photo pages/collages are delish!
sounds like you had a wonderful day.....gorgeously lovely post, i love the way you show your photo's
xx
It's been awhile - you have reminded me that I need to plan something for myself - Little Italy looks perfect...a break from water slides, Wii, trampolines & corn dogs.
such a pretty post. lovely!
I wanted to let you know that we are passing along the Lovely Blog Award to you! You can stop by our blog to "pick it up"!
I love the way you show your pics...What do you use? How do you make the label?
Very beautiful!
I haven't been through this part of SD. Must do it now that you've mentioned it. :-)
I have given you a Blogger Award. I you like you may read about it and pass it to other bloggers: http://neu4bauer.blogspot.com/2009/06/blogger-buddy-award.html
Wow. That sounds fantastic and I LIVE in San Diego. It's amazing how easy it is to forget the hidden jewels in your own city.
I love your blog and I chose it to be the first one to receive "Love Badge"-award. You may get it from my blog if you like.
Your Field Journal was perhaps the very reason I originally started a blog of my own, so this is a way to thank you.
Love,
AD
Beautiful as always! You have the most exquisite photography and layout to your posts. It could draw me in for hours and hours!
I was wondering the other day, how is your dollhouse project coming along? I was thinking of starting something like that for the summer during the too-humid-to-go-outside days. I'm sure it's looking lovely!
Wow, so many pretty colours on this blog! I like it:)
Hi Livy!
Your blog looks so smart and interesting!
Greetings from Italy!
Michela
http://littlesecretsfrommygarden.blogspot.com
Hi Livy!
Your blog looks so smart!
Greetings from Italy!!!
Michela
http://littlesecretsfrommygarden.blogspot.com
I just stubled on your blog!
I love it so much
its so delightfully pastel
xx
Looks and sounds like a great day trip! I love taking those kind of trips here in the Carolinas.
I went to school in San Diego before Little Italy's revival. I've been dying to go back via the Coastal Starlight. Your pictures have moved this wish to the top of my list--just lovely! :)
What a phenomenal bunch of photos.
I'm so glad you love my San Diego
hi!
i'm new to your blog and it's quite sweetie. can't wait to come back for more...
beautiful!
Love these pictures- so dreamy!
What kind of camera do you use to get that effect?
Well, this San Diegan has been to little Italy many times, but it never looks as good as your pics make it look! You are such a dreamy artist.
this is one of the loveliest posts i have ever seen -- utterly charming! what a beautiful day it must have been
Oh my ! This is wonderful. So, so cute
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