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I landed in Boston yesterday afternoon. Today I had many meetings. At 8pm, at the end of the Semantic Web meeting at Stata, I went out and…. surprise… snow!!!

Yeah, this is the same old picture… but, as you can see the water is frozen and the snow covered the ice.

Washington DC is an interesting city. The first impact was with Union Station that is a bit old and messy… but starting from the underground (or Metro as it is called there) the things change. The Metro is really well organized and well mantained. The city is in general really clean with a lot of impressive buildings (most of them are governative/administrative). The mall is a big green area sorrounded by incredible museums (all for free). The majority of them are grouped in the world’s largests museums complex called “Smithsonians“.

But the thing I noticed is that there are only a few people around… it is a sort of beautiful empty city.

Ten days ago I was walking in the Baltimore harbour and some people were learning to fly:

Then I’ve been sitting on a bench for a while, looking at the seagulls:

Some days after, I was at the Washington DC space museum:

Wish I could fly…

Times square in New York is one of those places you cannot imagine until you visit it. It is something in between reality and fantasy. I took some pics in there and I put “Lights and Ghosts” as title of the album… Pictures seem unreal, I would say they look like drawings.

And October is over… here another bunch of pictures of this month. Enjoy!.

The Stata Center is one of the most interesting building at the MIT (Massachusetts iInstitute of Technology). It is one of my favourite places to work too. The building is home to the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). And there are some other new cool buildings around (The evolving MIT campus).

Another small shooting session with David… going to the mall for lunch.

Some shots I took coming back from a meeting… it was some days ago.

Yes, sometimes I go back to my hometown too… on the bottom of central Alps. In September, it is common to find groups of cows coming back from high mountains where they spent the entire summer in freedom.

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September lights… post #2. It is really interesting to sit and look at the soft September lights kissing the hills. I’d like to find some time to take some pictures of the local river… in September it looks amazing.

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September is the month of grapes… which in Italy often means wine. One of the most famous Italian wines is the well known Brunello di Montalcino which is also quite expensive (I think it is something about 40 euros a bottle). I usually prefer some less expensive but still really good wines like Bonarda (from Piemonte) and Gutturnio (from Colli Piacentini in the Emilia-Romagna region).

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September lights…

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