Window, Varzo.
No need to water those flowers.
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Showing posts with label Varzo. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Window view, Varzo
It's 7am, Saturday morning. From the window of my study I can see blue skies above - a day for the great outdoors and some serious watering.
Sunday, 1 May 2011
The old trattoria
A beautiful morning, with blue skies and a gentle breeze in the fresh leaves. A good day for the vegetable patch...to see if I can make it less patch and more vegetables.
Remnants of former culinary glory.
Varzo, VCO.
(Close to Iselle, the old borgo of Varzo is worth a detour if you find yourself a couple of hours early for the Simplon Tunnel train.)
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Not St George's Day
Coolish, benignly overcast, and with patches of damp where it tried to rain last night.
For the whole of my life, 23 April has been St George's Day, that day when the English agonise over whether to celebrate their patron saint or whether it would all be too politically incorrect for words. Well not this 23 April. And that's because today is also Holy Saturday, when there are traditionally no divine services until the evening's Easter Vigil.
So that George gets a look-in somewhere along the line this year he's been shifted to Monday, when there will undoubtedly be plenty of angst-free celebrations in other places where he's the patron saint, such as Malta, Palestine, Istanbul, Moscow, Venice, Saskatchewan, Beirut, Moscow, Genoa, Constantinople and Brissago.
In the meantime, here's a quick slain dragon to keep you in the mood...
Hooray for brave knights on white chargers rescuing fair maidens in distress!
For the whole of my life, 23 April has been St George's Day, that day when the English agonise over whether to celebrate their patron saint or whether it would all be too politically incorrect for words. Well not this 23 April. And that's because today is also Holy Saturday, when there are traditionally no divine services until the evening's Easter Vigil.
So that George gets a look-in somewhere along the line this year he's been shifted to Monday, when there will undoubtedly be plenty of angst-free celebrations in other places where he's the patron saint, such as Malta, Palestine, Istanbul, Moscow, Venice, Saskatchewan, Beirut, Moscow, Genoa, Constantinople and Brissago.
In the meantime, here's a quick slain dragon to keep you in the mood...
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| The dragon slain, church door, Varzo |
Hooray for brave knights on white chargers rescuing fair maidens in distress!
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Showing posts with label Varzo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Varzo. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Window view, Varzo
It's 7am, Saturday morning. From the window of my study I can see blue skies above - a day for the great outdoors and some serious watering.
Window, Varzo.
No need to water those flowers.
Sunday, 1 May 2011
The old trattoria
A beautiful morning, with blue skies and a gentle breeze in the fresh leaves. A good day for the vegetable patch...to see if I can make it less patch and more vegetables.
Remnants of former culinary glory.
Varzo, VCO.
(Close to Iselle, the old borgo of Varzo is worth a detour if you find yourself a couple of hours early for the Simplon Tunnel train.)
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Not St George's Day
Coolish, benignly overcast, and with patches of damp where it tried to rain last night.
For the whole of my life, 23 April has been St George's Day, that day when the English agonise over whether to celebrate their patron saint or whether it would all be too politically incorrect for words. Well not this 23 April. And that's because today is also Holy Saturday, when there are traditionally no divine services until the evening's Easter Vigil.
So that George gets a look-in somewhere along the line this year he's been shifted to Monday, when there will undoubtedly be plenty of angst-free celebrations in other places where he's the patron saint, such as Malta, Palestine, Istanbul, Moscow, Venice, Saskatchewan, Beirut, Moscow, Genoa, Constantinople and Brissago.
In the meantime, here's a quick slain dragon to keep you in the mood...
Hooray for brave knights on white chargers rescuing fair maidens in distress!
For the whole of my life, 23 April has been St George's Day, that day when the English agonise over whether to celebrate their patron saint or whether it would all be too politically incorrect for words. Well not this 23 April. And that's because today is also Holy Saturday, when there are traditionally no divine services until the evening's Easter Vigil.
So that George gets a look-in somewhere along the line this year he's been shifted to Monday, when there will undoubtedly be plenty of angst-free celebrations in other places where he's the patron saint, such as Malta, Palestine, Istanbul, Moscow, Venice, Saskatchewan, Beirut, Moscow, Genoa, Constantinople and Brissago.
In the meantime, here's a quick slain dragon to keep you in the mood...
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| The dragon slain, church door, Varzo |
Hooray for brave knights on white chargers rescuing fair maidens in distress!
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