an artist, a designer and a lover of color and pattern
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…
Every once in a while, you just need to roll down the windows and head for the beach…
There is just something about spring in Tuscany, it never fails to knock me off my feet every year. Those lingering cool breezes and longer days. If you ask me about my favorite sounds I would immediately reply the sing song of birds before dawn and that ever present flutter of poplar leaves. If you …
A walk in a sunflower field with girasoli bigger than my head; an international gathering of friends for a wine tasting…rose’, syrah, sangiovese, merlot, cabernet; a sunset drive across the valley with fresh breezes in my hair; an extravagant festival dinner celebrating the frog…yes, I ate them again this year; playing a game simply to …
As I promised…here is a glimpse of those fields a fire in which I spoke earlier. Ohhh those papaveri, poppies, beauteous aren’t they?
Hard to believe that we have reached my beloved Maggio…the month of May. The skies are stunning and the ground is a fire with poppies and wild orchids (photos to come, I swear). I took a little time this morning to gather myself and look back through my hundreds of photos, sometimes the only way …