On April 15th, 2011, ABAZIA DI MONTE OLIVETO MAGGIORE…
…is the hilltop Asciano-adjacent Tuscan Benedictine monastery dating from 1313 we are visiting today, which features a very cool 1553 fish pond that would feed the monks during…
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On April 13th, 2011, TUSCAN PLASTIC CROP COVERS…
…(for strawberries?) are the cool shocking shiny surfaces wrapping parts of the rolling spring green surfaces of southern Tuscan landscapes as viewed from my very slow one car…
On January 3rd, 2011, THE MAREMMAN SHEEP…
…were looking at us as we were attempting to visit the Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture park of Il Giardino dei Tarochi which was closed, but the sheep…
On January 2nd, 2011, CAPALBIO…
…like all great medieval Italian hilltowns (we are in the Maremma of Southwest Tuscany), provides that brilliant vivid contrast between the feeling of dense urbanism on the inside,…
On January 1st, 2011, ON THE BEACHES OF CAPALBIO…
…just South of the Lago di Burano wildlife preserve, is where we have come this groggy afternoon to honor this first day of 2011, recover from a late…
On December 31st, 2010, AN ARRANGEMENT OF SCAVENGED FLOWERS…
…is what I find myself assembling from the the wild landscape I find right out the door this afternoon as I settle in for a long cozy New…
On November 6th, 2010, A TUSCAN FARMHOUSE…
…at least 500 years old, southeast of Florence, just up the hills of Bagno a Ripoli, right after the tiny village La Fonte is where I lived from…
On October 31st, 2010, THE BARLEY FIELDS…
…of Southern Tuscany, the austere sensuous rolling terrain marked with cypress lines and clusters is one of my favorite all-time landscapes which even seems sacred and mystical speeding…
On October 30th, 2010, BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO VINEYARDS…
…are on fire right now in the most spectacular spectrum of shades from bright yellows to gaudy pinks and deep magentas which are also all to be found…
On October 29th, 2010, BORGO FINOCCHIETO…
…is a medieval village (circa 1200) on a hill near Buonconvento in the province of Siena on Via Francigena, the historic pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, that…