Transition.

While we're waiting for our connecting flight here in Dallas,I thought I'd post this photo of my grandfather Carlo, who grew up in Lucca. It was taken in the early 1920's, about the time he left Italy for a new life in America. He followed his older brother Omero to Pittsburgh, where both got their start in the restaurant business.

He didn't visit Italy again until 1950, by which time his mother had died. By then he was a successful restaurateur in Santa Barbara, married and the father of 2 young daughters.