The Geranium Committee

Many of the windows in Venice sport window boxes that are exploding with geraniums. You turn a corner, glance up, and there is your perfect tourist-with-a-camera moment. The bright orangey-red flowers create a sparkling contrast with the golds, marble grays and terracotta browns of the buildings. There are very few ragged plants... they all seem to be in full bloom, well groomed, and neatly spaced beneath the prettiest windows. Sometimes they are so perfect that I wonder if there is a committee just for the placement of geraniums. With the legendary Italian bureaucracy being what it is, it could just be possible.