Laundry in the sun. A timeless habit.
Clothes hanging on the drying racks of the balconies. Clothes hanging on ropes pulled under the windows or on the terraces. Clothes hung even in the narrow alleys on ropes suspended from one end of a house to the other. They have been placed there in an accurate and well-studied way: all the laundry must enter that […]
The last emotion. The plaster casts of Pompeii.
Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. Ten years earlier there had been an earthquake, but it was not understood that it could be connected to a volcanic eruption. After all, thousands of years had passed since the last eruption of Vesuvius. During that terrible day there would probably have been a smell of sulfur and vapors […]
Yellow May in Italy
Spring has started for a couple of months now in Italy; the sun gives us long and warm days and nature has awakened! It is an explosion of colors and scents of blossoming flowers and sprouting plants, it is an explosion of noises with the animals that now have finished their winter rest and move, crawl, chirp …Something amazing […]
A Sunday of ordinary happiness. Not too ordinary though.
From 26 April 2021 in Italy, a decree law relating to measures to fight and prevent the contagion from COVID-19 has established new rules to be followed for the next few weeks: significant changes have been introduced that provide for a gradual reopening of activities, from schools to cinemas, from gyms to restaurants… On Sunday, […]
A plant that has seen a lot – Story of a millenary olive tree
Where has everyone gone? This might be what the thousand year old olive tree of Bovara, a small fraction of the Umbrian municipality of Trevi, is wondering. You got it right … a thousand year old! It is called the Olive tree of Sant’Emiliano because it seems that the bishop of Trevi Emiliano was tied to […]
Get used to being amazed. Sicily, the beautiful.
Sailing with a boat on the crystal clear waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea,a few kilometers from the Sicilian coast, an island appears before us…or maybe two? The Greeks called it Didyme (from dìdymos, twin) for its morphology characterized by the presence of two volcanic reliefs separated by a plateau. I’m talking about the Island of […]
The rest of the olive tree
Winter is a period of rest for everyone,even for plants. In winter plants reduce their physiological functions to a minimum: they slow down and wait patiently for the cold period to end in order to be reborn in spring. Even the olive tree, one of the most widespread crops in the Tuscan countryside, experiences this “vegetative […]
Playing the Flute for Guests
From time to time I love to stop in a church along the path and play some music. Music is such an important part of my life. I’ve been playing the flute since I was 22. The flute was not my first instrument. I started to play guitar when I was 15. Soon I joined […]