It's time for another Italy Photohunt!
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This week's prompt is "Morning"

You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.

Since I was the last photo last week, I'll start this off with one of my favorite Piemonte shots.
This was our first morning sunrise at Baur B&B on our first visit in 2006.

Ooooh, Palma. Che bella!

That is a gorgeous sunrise Palma! The subtle layering of the hills is so pretty.

Palma that is beautiful!

I am not a morning person but was up early the first morning in Italy during my 2007 trip. I was amazed at how few people were out and about this early in the morning. I even just missed stepping on a dead rat on my walk to Piazza San Marco. The street cleaners did not reach that street yet.

I'm SO-SO-SO not a morning person, either, so any photos taken in my morning will be like photos that you'd take around noon. Still, to me that's morning!

And here we are, morning in Sant Elena, Venice...that's Karen walking towards Chiesa di S. Elena in the Venetian morning sunshine.
Vincenzo had to meet a client there that morning, so I dragged myself out of bed, and was ready to go at the break of dawn!
Ok, ok, it was more like 10:30 A.M., but still...morning.

"Luxury is an ancient notion.
There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up." ~ Argosy
Brenda

Campo dei Fiore, Roma
The carts, parked in a side street, after being unloaded for the morning market.

Well, luckily I AM a morning person so I have lots of sunrise/early morning shots from Italy. It was hard to pick just one for this!

Here the Sun is about to rise behind Cortona
(Cortona is on the mountainside just below the rising sun). Taken May 2007, from Villa Infinito, our rental house outside Sinalunga.

Tery

This is what I see every morning walking up Via Roma.
The archway is under the town hall. Getting into Piazza della Repubblica. Those two older man are always there, at the same hour every morning. There is an office of WWII veterans and the walking man always meet the other one on the door of the office.
I don't know what they are saying, but they talk always, everyday for 15 minutes.

I'm not normally much of an early riser - but for last month's Venice marathon, the runners needed to be at Tronchetto by 7am. Here's a shot of the sunrise, and a long queue of runners waiting for the buses to take them to Strà (Philippa & her friend Val were already on the bus).

And, half an hour later, I was at the front of a No.1 heading down an almost deserted Grand Canal, enjoying the early morning sunshine. So here's the Casino and the San Marcuola vaporetto stop, at around 7.30am, late October.

Jonathan

Not as stunning as the photos already posted, but this was my view every morning for two weeks. It is taken from the tower room in my Bologna apartment where I drank my morning coffee and listened to the church bells.

From our kitchen window in the Apuan Mountains.
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Such spectacular photos... Mine isn't a stunning sunrise, but it's a memory that makes me smile. Every morning in Firenze I'd take the 7:45 bus; and every morning I'd see this woman in the market near the bus stop, stopping for food on her way to work.

The Moka is my best friend in the morning. San Martino Alfiere, Piemonte, 2006.

Sunrise view of my home base, Soriano nel Cimino in mid-October 2008. Taken from Monte Cimino, just below the Faggeta forest, looking out toward the northern part of the Tiber valley and Umbria. The trees at the bottom are full of chestnuts that are ready to drop.

After trying to see the Pantheon several times and finding it just too crowded, we went early in the morning on our last day. This is from the doorway, looking out onto the piazza.

Early morning~ fueling up before we leave our clunky key at the desk.

Michael, nice view of Soriano from the mountain..I ususally see it from down below in the foggy bit, as I drive along the highway towards Orte.

Sunrise over the Pompeii ruins. Taken from our Balcony in the Villa dei Misteri hotel in Pompei. Feb 2006

girasoli, your photo makes me want to run away to Venice right away.

All you non-morning people are up early!!

This is Jelsi Campobasso--where my father was born.

Produce arriving at the market Venice
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Yet another Venice dawn:

Great photos! So many to choose from for this topic. Here is a shot of the early morning mist from our hotel room terrace in Montalcino in October 2006.

Siracusa. Thanks to all those who post on the "photohunts." I really enjoy them. (I hope my photo is sized right this time.)

A typical November morning in Piedmont (not this year its been too foggy!) from our balcony.The sun is rising on the Cottine Alps to the west.

I can't resist this one taken very early in the morning just before sunrise

When I woke up in Ravello the day after my camera broke, the sunrise over the misty sea was so beautiful that it "dawned" on me I could use my American cell phone as a camera even though it was useless as a phone. This must have been taken from my bed, as the single bed, the room, and the balcony door were all about the same width, with just enough space for the window to open in over a basin for my morning ablutions.

Campo de' Fiori, Roma. Opening of the market.

Lots of people have to be up fairly early whether they are morning people or not! This was taken as I transferred from train to train at Flaminio station, returning to Rome from Sutri. Many of these early risers seem to be making first cotact by cell phone.

My friend, Frank, shaving in Tuscan farmhouse.

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Oh my Amy--I am sorry ! I thought it was smaller. I will go sit in the corner now !

Like ColleenK, here's the view from our window, the first morning we awoke in Montalcino last week. That mist was around much of the week, made it seem like a sea of clouds surrounded the hilltop.

Gosh, they're all so beautiful, makes you (almost) want to get up early!
jafbrad, the framing of your shot is terrific ... good eye!

Strolling back to the apartment on Via Dei Giubbonari, after picking up breakfast delectables at the Campo di Fiori market.

This summer, when we arrived in Montemegiano, we found that four men were hard at work restoring our chapel's bell tower.
So, every morning for the 10 days we were there, I took them their mid-morning cafe.

Morning walk with Max, early spring 2008.

Acqui Terme, July 2008.
Every morning local residents come to the "Bollente" a hot spring in the middle of town. They fill containers with the hot smelly water, for various uses from drinking to cleaning. (for more info, ask Diana )

cioccolata calda

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Early morning at the Rialto fish market in Venice, July 2008.

Morning light on the Roman forum.

- Roz

Sheep at Patrico, near Spoleto

Morning dew near Pienza with Mt. Amiata in the background.

Drinking coffee and eating breakfast around the kitchen island in our Montisi villa. Palma makes a dramatic point while Brad is already at work on dinner preparations!

Wonderful photos - this is a great idea for the message board.
My contribution-
Chickens - always at our Casa Rosa (near Assisi) door in the morning.
Sometimes they actually wandered into the house a bit. We didn't care, as we were charmed. And then there were the cats, which came as optional pets, if you showed an interest and indulged them. The orange one slept with us sometimes, reminding us of our cats at home.
Linda

Another early morning in Montisi. I happened to be up the first morning as the sun came up... not so much because of the time change as the acoustics in my room.

This is Sorrento in the morning. I hope it is small enough! (This is the first trial.)

I love this photo of my darling son checking out the morning as it opens before him over the waters surrounding Amalfi this past spring.

"If people were meant to pop out of bed in the morning, we'd all sleep in toasters." ~ Jim Davis

I have another one
this is taken from our hotel room in Positano in October 2006