Poppies… Poppies…

All the beautiful spring wildflowers are popping up everywhere.  But there is no wicked witch here.  Just beautiful red poppies.   These are sprouting up en masse in fields throughout the countryside.  I stopped to take these photos on my way to Sansepolcro today.  You feel happy just looking at them.  Beautiful and yet, so relaxing…  [...]

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Frutta e Verdura

  I went to my fruit and vegetable – Frutta e Verdura vendor in Sansepolcro today. I just love going there.  When you walk in, the smells hit you like a wall.  The ripe bananas, the licorice of fennel, spicy peppers, a million sweet varieties of apples, and ripe tomatoes.  The overwhelming scent of fresh [...]

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Let It Snow…

How do you get two sleepy boys out of bed?  Tell them it snowed!  Today we received our first snow. Jole and Romano were right.  As soon as I went into the boy’s bedroom to wake them and tell them about the snow, they were yippee-skippee out of bed.  This is very exciting for the [...]

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Mercato, Mist and Mushrooms

Sunday, December 6th On our way to the Monterchi mercato for our usual weekly fix of a Porchetta sandwich and some shopping, I stopped on the side of the road to snap some pictures.  It was really quite pretty with a thick fog hanging in the air, drifting over buildings and trees, making objects seem [...]

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Autumn – L’autunno

Fall has arrived quite abruptly here. Not that it hasn’t been cold. Actually, for a week it was downright frigid before Andrew came. But, one day the trees were green and now all of a sudden they are a brilliant quilt of colors. It is really quite stunning these last two weeks. The sky has [...]

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The colors of Tuscany in the Fall

I walk around my town and I see all the lovely colors of fall.  Brilliant Brilliant colors.! Those are the many colors of fall here in Tuscany and I love them all!

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What does it sound like here?

The sounds here are noticeably different than at home in the United States. Caprese Michelangelo (Caprese) is a tiny small hamlet of a town with mostly elderly and they say the town is dying off because all the younger people are moving away. However, its sounds tell me something very different; the sounds are spirited, [...]

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