This photo was one of my considered choices for the CDP February theme : Umbrellas, but it didn't make the cut.
It was a raining day and I was walking along Via Garibaldi trying to snap some photos for the umbrellas theme, I saw this group of people waiting the traffic light to turn for them to cross the street, the way these two guys standing almost facing each others somehow made me imagine two gunmen having a duel in the far west, only here they have the umbrellas.
I normally don't like to use umbrella, even though I always keep a small one in my camera bag, but I like to look at them in a raining days, they provide much colors and liveliness to these usually grayish days.
Here I made these photo when people were walking fast and protected under their umbrellas in an evening of pouring.
The Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata), or just Mandarin, is a medium-sized, East Asian perching duck, closely related to the North American Wood Duck. It is 41–49 cm long with a 65–75 cm wingspan.
This is the first time I have seen these beautiful, marvelous creatures along the river Po, they look like toys!
The sky was grayish and cloudy, I was hesitated whether or not to visit the river, and I am glad I made this walk....
Some distance further up from the bridge at piazza Vittorio, there were this group of four navigating their way on the river, I followed them till they reached home, the shrubs along the river bank, neighbor with a group of mallards.
鸳鸯, is their chinese name, which is the symbol of loving couples, those who are longing for love often say : 只羡鸳鸯， 不羡仙 (Only envy the mandarin duck, do not envy the gods).
Strange enough, instead of sticking in a couple, I saw this group of 3 males and one female swimming together towards home....
In Italy the designated public urinals in the form of sentry box or kiosk is commonly called Vespasiano. The term comes from Titus Flavius Vespasian, the Roman emperor, who, according to the testimony of Suetonius, probably in reference to a tax he placed on urine collection (useful due to its ammoniac content).
Or according to some friends, because he was the one who ordered to build these public urinals, in order to stop people from pissing all over the streets in roman time.
In these photo, is the 'modern' public urinals which only a few still can be found along the streets...
Mister Hu is one of the oldest Chinese restaurant in Torino, beside Chinese food, they serve also Japanese food (which i don't understand why, but it seems to be the trend, as more and more Chinese restaurants serving sushi, sashimi....). Although it is just next to my block, in Via Dei Mercanti, but I have never been to try it out yet.
The view of the full moon along Corso Principe Eugenio....
