I'm posting this one to rest after the hectic days of my room's New Order (I' won't find things for years!). Today it's August 26, St. Alexander, my name day. We never cared name days in my family, only birthdays.I got my name shortened at the birth: Sandra, because my dad didn't like it shortened by others. My dad's real name was Bruno, but he was called Sandro almost since birth. In fact, he was born in 1917, and in 1918 his older brother Sandro died of Spanish flu. It looks that it was an old usage in our countryside to call the new babes with the names of the dead. St. Alexander is the patron saint of Bergamo, an important industrial city in Lombardy. The confused and often absurd story of his martyrdom in 303 AD was written 5 centuries after it. According to historians, he was not a soldier of a fabulous Thebaean legion, made of Christians, and destroyed by the emperor, but a missionary killed by the locals living in the mountainous valleys around Bergamo. They are hard workers, but still today they aren't very friendly with strangers! My dad's name, and mine, however, probably didn't come from this Catholic saint, but from Alexander the Great, since my grandad was a history buff. My dad's second name was Hannibal, the Carthagean general who came to Italy through the Alps with his elephants! Alexander is the name for a warrior-king: it means Men's Shield (Defender). I've always found a bit ironoical that, as a feminist, I may be considered a Women's Shield! ;D) The ancient Romans said: In nomem, omen. In the name, the omen. This shot was taken last June during the annual feast of the technical school for agronomists and floriculturists where a friend of mine is teaching. It isn't a collage: people, that is the students, their parents, teachers, and friends, relaxed, walking around, buying flowers from the school glasshouses, or did nothing. I wanted to post this one for the Photography Forum Challenge about Action, together with others taken the same day. Then I had one of my usual philosophical headaches: Can a lack of action be figured as a negative of an action (not a negative action), that is a non-action can be thought of as a ghostly action? To you the hard sentence! Can resting be considered the action of doing nothing? Thank you for your kind comments.