Italian light - 08 Sep 2010

Did I already mention that the light in Italy is just fabulous? Every day the shades are different. Every day the picture changes. Remember the story I told you about that man who believed he was the richest man in the world because he lived in a castle with an ever-changing mosaic ceiling (which turned out to be the clouds)? Well, that's exactly how we feel. Very very rich and fortunate indeed. Here are a couple of pictures I took over the last couple of days. According to me they're not the best ever and they don't even come close to really being there. But I still hope you enjoy them...


This is the valley of the river Secchia, just a couple of miles away from our house and taken from the road that leads to Castelnovo ne' Monti, the main town in the area...





The following picture was taken yesterday morning. The town of Sologno was still covered by the clouds, but from our driveway the view was just spectacular. Being at an altitude of nearly 800m means that at once you can be "overwhelmed" by clouds. When I was having breakfast outdoors in Sologno, all of a sudden the clouds invaded the town and took away all sunshine. It was as if someone blew them in with an enormous smoke-machine. A bit scary, actually... just like in these horror-movies :-)




The following picture was taken from our bedroom window, yesterday evening. Just stunning colours...



And now for something completely different... How do you like our new dining room? :-) I hope that Christine will be pleased with my cleaning job when she gets back from Flanders... You can see the space where later on there will be a built-in cupboard. It's one of the few pieces of furniture that we'll recover from the original house. Obvioulsy the woodwork still needs a serious polish and a couple of layers of protective paint so we can't install it yet. But the old windows are just lovely. It will make a beautiful display for our finest crystal glasses.