Coming Alive.

A short ride from Florence and the hills of chianti are greening as spring has well and truly begun. It's hard to take a bad photo with perfect skies, and a landscape of olive groves, vines and cyprusses.

...but a photo will never tell the whole story. Even a painting... only approaches ...being here.

Vines and Vistas.

The days grow warmer and all of a sudden life is everywhere...but the vines......slowly does it. They take their time to awaken and somehow I agree. Where is the hurry? Summer days will come. There will be time yet to grow and ripen.

Early Tomatoes.

The warm weather has got us looking forward to summer: so much so that I took it upon myself to put in some tomato plants at the allotment ahead of all the other plot holders. Will they suffer from a late frost? Will I be digging them up within the month and replacing them with those from my balcony. Wait and see.

Slow Start

We are off to a slow start, what with one thing and another this year, but perhaps that is just as well:

'To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first' Henry VIII (Act 1 Sc1)

And the reason?