Maurizio Zanetti

Spring. Nature awakens and wonderful flowers bloom out of nowhere. I don't know the name of the one in the picture, I love flowers but I don't have a "green thumb". Found along a road where the city turns back to the countryside.

In front of a kindergarten in splendid Venice. Scooters are starting to be seen even in its centuries-old streets. The small, beautiful, push-action ones, driven by children. Who diligently park them in front of the school.

Cities are full of them. These are the boxes that contain the various control units of the various telephone companies. As ugly as they are indispensable. Some street artists came up with the idea of painting them. And here is that horrible anonymous gray metal boxes become works of art. Here in Verona, Italy.

When I am out and about walking around the city or its borders, I always have my iPhone in my hands. Because you don't know the right time to find something or someone to photograph, better be ready. And so it can happen to immortalize a splendid red cat that, for a moment, comes out of a garden, looks at you, goes back to where it came from.

It will certainly not be the demonstrations of protest against Putin and solidarity with the Ukrainian people that will change things. We need real help, concrete and not just moral solidarity. However, even a photo taken during a demonstration in Verona can help us not to forget. Free Ukraine!!!

"The blue angel of welcome" is the bronze statue of the artist Albano Poli. In front of the Cathedral of Verona reminds passers-by of the word "welcome". Never before as indispensable in our daily vocabulary.

The Roman Theater of Verona, once the season of shows that it hosts in the summer months has ended, returns to being a set of walls, columns, arches that tell its ancient history. On a foggy evening, everything takes on magical contours.

Even on a gray winter day, the beautiful Verona can give splendid images. Photo taken from the top of Castel San Pietro, towards the ancient Ponte Pietra and the Duomo.

The Raterian iconography or Civitas Veronensis Depicta is the oldest known representation of the city of Verona. It dates back to the 10th century and there remains a copy made by Scipione Maffei in the 18th century and kept in the Capitular Library. A group of street artists faithfully reproduced it on a house in an alley just outside Porta Vescovo.

The path along the ancient walls of Verona, an oasis of peace and nature a few hundred meters from the city center. A postcard sky is the backdrop to the autumn foliage.