Autumn is slowly creeping into our area. The grape and olive harvests are in full swing. The days are lovely and warm, but not uncomfortably hot. Nights are sometimes cool enough for a light blanket. For some reason, autumn always reminds me of Nonno’s house, our summer home. It’s the house my husband was born […]
A celebration of love. Yes, October is the month of love, at least in our house! You see, we got married just one month after we first met. (Not that we “had to” – we just wanted to be together.) We don’t even have any wedding pictures because we got married so quickly. But since […]
Autumn in Italy! It’s the season for harvesting the olives — and right in our own garden at that! Ah, autumn in Italy! Olives falling from the trees, grapes ripening on the vines, and chestnuts roasting on open fires! My husband harvests our olives the traditional way. He picks them by hand, one by one. […]
Autumn in Italy is a wonderful season! Mostly warm and balmy – almost warm enough for sunbathing through the first part of November. It’s known as Italy’s Roman Summer, similar to the Indian Summer we used to enjoy back in the USA. But since the early 1900s, Roman summer has been the season for special harvest […]
Crackling leaves underfoot. Whafts of wood smoke in the air. Pumpkins and apples. Chestnuts roasting. There’s something cozy about Autumn, isn’t there? And these are just some of the things you can expect to find in an Italian autumn. Maybe you’ll be lucky enough and catch a grape or harvest. Two of the most special events […]
Hello everyone, life has been a little crazy around here lately. Some days it’s hard to keep up. Especially since we’re planning a temporary move from our hilltop village down to the nearby bigger city. And of course that always turns things a bit upside down. So today, even though the olive harvest is just […]