A View from Carmine Superiore

In Carmine this year, Easter has come early. The chicks are hatching and the ewe is heavy, the daffodils are dancing and the camellias are d...

Another gorgeously warm spring day awaits today in Carmine Superiore. Ten days over ten degrees and we put our firewood axes away and decla...

In Carmine Superiore, today, there are dazzling blue skies and the temperature is definitely warm for the time of year. On this day in Febru...

Clouds cross in front of the mountains in Lombardy, just across the lake. A view from Carmine Superiore, Winter 2010-2011.

The idea that Mama and Pappi might at some point in the near future take a break alone, together, sans brood, was some days ago mentioned ...

In the balmy nights of Carmine summers, when the residents sleep with open windows, and lightning streaks silently across the skyline, stran...

One June day in 2007, a little boy, not yet three, is sitting on a climbing frame in a hot and dusty garden surrounded by sixty other childr...

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it wi...

Cold, dry, and with snow and ice still making the sentiero an obstacle course.The bathroom temperature is hovering steady at 5°C. This...

Today, Carmine looks a little as it did at Christmas in 2009... ...and the Sunday soundtrack is the music that would have been heard in...

A fraction below 5°C in the bathroom this morning. Cold, bright and dry. The laghetto is frozen and there are icicles forming in the streams...

One solitary degree at 8:03am. Frost in the frost pockets where the cold air tumbles down the sides of Carmine's ramparts. Ice cubes in ...

A mild and misty Monday morning.   Today, standing at my favourite morning spot, the mountains behind me, the woods full of wildlife s...

Cold, dry and hazy.  The five degrees in the bathroom and the fire burning in our beloved Mathilda , has signalled the start of our Carmin...

After two days of thundering rain, the skies are once more blue and the sun is warming Carmine's ancient bones.  And nature is making ...