As I am starting to pack up things to get ready to leave, I am going through the myriad of “things” the boys have found and accumulated over the year that we have been here. It looks like a Natural History museum with all of the bottles and jars of their collections.
On their shelves are feathers, shells, various bugs, bees, and frogs, part of a beehive, a bird’s nest, antlers, a skull of a cinghiale, a massive pinecone, chestnuts, walnuts, acorns, assorted rocks and minerals and the recent addition of the road kill snake . I made them throw out the carcass of a dead bird I found stuffed in the back of one of their cabinets. Perhaps when we leave, I should donate them to the town of Caprese and they can start a small museum. I am sure Jole is going to be quite happy to see her terrace clean of all of this stuff.
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
