Flying to California a month ago, I had an epiphany. I am the matriarch of my family AND I have no HOME in California. Thirty-two years ago, I bought a one way ticket to France. Little did I know that Italy would become my home. This trip back to California was hard. I was going…
Primavera?
It seems like Spring has arrived in Tuscany. The hills are green, in my garden the violets are already blooming and my roses never stopped blooming all winter. The foto is from the hillside near my home, a new farmer has started raising goats and soon will be producing goat cheese. I can’t wait. Last…
Changing Seasons- Il Mio Giardino
I adore when spring comes to Tuscany. My garden begins to gift me free food. This was a really wet winter and most of our winter salads and other plants didn’t survive the wet weather or the intense snow here. So as it finally begins to warm up, I am thrilled to be able to…
Celebrating Spring- Exploding
spiders hatching! I arrived home from New Orleans to find an explosion of color in the hills around my home. Not just green, but red too! Italian red poppies What are the poppies already doing out? While I was gone, it rained daily and the sunshine in between, really pumping up the gardens and the…
Winter Greens to Spring Salads
Winter tiptoed through Tuscany, barely chilling us and Spring has snuck in. My tiny yards, front and back, are covered with wild violets, filling the air with a perfume like a grandmother’s hankie! Iris have started to stick their heads up, yellow mimosa trees also are full early this year. The hills are a velvet green…