More Country Roads

As you may have heard in the news, the weather has been very cold in much of Europe. They had snow in Naples, much more south than Florence, and some people have even died.

Here it has been and still is sunny, but today, as in the previous days, the maximum is around +2 and it gets colder in the night as open water is frozen when you get up in the morning and stays frozen most of the day.

Florentine ice!

Incognito Vegetables

Whenever I travel, I try to bring back some flower and vegetable seeds, to try out in the garden when I get home. (You can take seeds across borders as long as they are commercially packaged).

I tend to look for unusual seeds, ones that I am unlikely to find at home. They do not have to be rare.

This year, for instance, I bought among other things, seeds for a winter squash called Marina di Chioggia.

Remembering Things Passed

The other day we went to Fiesole to look at the Roman amphitheater. It was in part an excuse for a long walk as it was a warm and sunny day.

The amphitheater in Fiesole

All in a Day's Work of Tourism

For the first time yesterday we had someone try to short change us - at a national monument besides.

A Sunday Aternoon Walk

Here are a few pictures we took on a walk on December 18th.