User talk:Zyance

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Zyance you have some great photos.  I noticed that you have photos of some hill towns that lack them.

  I wrote the guy responsible for the merge and told him the importance of having a category that includes these gems as well as the struggle of  lesser known but beautiful hill towns to survive as Italy's population declines.  My guess is that he'll be reasonable.  The short discussion on the merge was not posted on the site itself, whether this was intentional I don't know. Perhaps it was posted under Hilltowns in Italy, which THEY replaced Italian Hilltowns with (a category I also created) ignoring a previous discussion. If not it's a neat trick, which reminds me of the tactics of the Bush campaign in Ohio where I served as a lawyer volunteer.  Have a "discussion", pretend it's public but only invite your friends. If that is what was done and it's repeated, there will be a response.    For now, let's hope they  accept my peace offering and leave this category alone.  I'd like to gradually expand the individual town pages.  If you look in my contribs you'll see that I've worked on many of them.  

Have fun in Umbria;  my wife returns from Rome tomorrow.  Among other things, she was trying to get the restoration of our hill town apartment going after our first contractor fell through.  Problem is we want to do too little: keep the ancient but cracked tile floors, leave the ancient but slightly rotted interior shutters, leave the plaster walls as is, etc.  An Italian expert in ancient masonry construction, who is an architect as well  as a PhD in seismology, tells us the place was built in the 1400s, has survived many earthquakes, and will survive many more provided we leave well enough alone.  Breach a wall, widen a window opening, or create a hard spot with modern reinforced concrete and the place will collapse next big quake. MGerety 03:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Your picture of the week looks like our floors.