Here’s to warm fires, good friends, the perfect tree, stockings, and of course lots of cheer. Wishing you a very very Merry Christmas – Buon Natale!
Novembre
The view has been incredible this past month of November…but then again, he delivers a little something to us every year…including some spectacular light shows intimate holidays with a mix of new (check out those Laura Fair coasters!) and old (Bionda-Bruna Montalla plates) spooky mixes of light, smoke and fog spread over the valley an …
Ottobre
This Ottobre, October, has been an unusual one filled with humid Indian summer days and long red-tinged dusks. Nature is a little behind this year. The crocus are still hanging on, the bees are still busy, and the spiders are in overdrive building web after web. Instead of normally being obsessed with olive picking, the …
Finding Pattern
As I mentioned here and here, it really is the simplest of things that bring the most joy. Stepping out of the door the other morning, this beautiful work of art struck me. I can just imagine the time, effort and thought that went into such a creation… pattern and inspiration bloom in every corner.
Comincia l’autunno
A vendemmia full of promise and sunshine and laughter and gossip culminating in pasta and roasted meats and cups and cups of wine. Days viewed through low lying clouds and smoky horizons. Walks at dusk through the olives in rubber boots with dogs and cat and family. And Autumn begins again…
L’estate
Ahhhh…l’estate…summertime. After what seemed to be an endless Winter…she jumped right into Spring’s place. Oh how welcome she is…those long lazy evenings and dinners with views.