Some of my favourite pictures taken this winter and spring in Italy

This beautiful red rose rewarded me for venturing out into the heat of the garden 🌞🎁🌹❤️ . . #redrose #flowerstagram #rose #rosa #bloom #gardening #myitaliangarden #summertime #beauty #nature #heat #gratitude #appreciation #redroseforlove
Sun setting behind a big grey cloud shows a golden lining. . #sunset #tramonto #silverlining #goldenlining #evening #eveningsky #sunrays #italianeveningsky
I know it’s hard during a crisis like COVID-19 to contemplate other issues demanding humanity’s concerted and immediate attention. But the climate crisis is the mother of all issues: we are already playing in extra time and we don’
Tomatoes growing very well in my lockdown vegetable patch 😁 I’m hoping some will ripen before the bugs eat them 🤨 . In the background, a farmer’s field of maize growing taller by the day. #tomatoes #mygarden #myitaliangarden #green #na
One of many bees 🐝 visiting my oregano today 😊. Is that a ladybird hiding in the corner? 😃❤️ #oregano #bee #bees🐝 #origano #myitaliangarden #gardening #gardeninglife #oreganoflowers #origanoinfiore #herbs #herbgarden #pollination #italy #spring #
Yes, a strange combination to be assembled on my garden table as if posing for an almost still life 🎃😻. I think my neighbour’s cat accepts me intruding on ‘her’ territory now 😉 . #myitaliangarden #garden #gardentable #juxtapositi
Sunset over the hills 🧡🤎💚 #sunset #tramonto #hills #silhouette #redskyatnight #cloudysky #evening #twilight #dusk #silhouette #nature #beauty #veneto #italy #peaceful #collieuganei
I couldn’t do justice to the amazing beauty of the passionflower from my garden, but I enjoyed trying and found this activity extremely soothing 😊. This is how I spent this week’s artist date on week 3 of Julia Cameron’s Artist&rsq
From our nature walk at Lago verde on Sunday. There were so many wild flowers to admire. And many fallen trees like this trunk blown down in years of storms and left to provide a unique ecosystem for the flora and fauna in and around the peaceful wat
Today’s pleasure 💜 my first little aubergine growing in my Covid-driven potager. It’s a cloudy day, but the sun is shining for the moment and that’s how I like to live now, savouring the little things I didn’t always have tim
Thinking of you 🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️ . #firstanniversary #mydad #missyoudad #memories #family #oneyearon #fatheranddaughter #cherishedmemories #lovebeyondlife #nature #clouds #greyskies #cloudyday #hills
Il Lago Verde - you can see why this tranquil little nature reserve in Veneto, Italy is called the Green Lake 💚 Such a pleasure to amble around its shores on the secluded paths, stopping to observe the wild flowers in bloom and wait for water birds
Lazy Sunday morning and I had a lovely chat with my neighbour’s cat at my bedroom window 😻 She is very shy and wary of humans after a bad start in life, so it’s taken us many encounters to finally make friends. I think I would most like
Aubergine plants have beautiful foliage and shy but lovely purple flowers 💚💜🍆 💜💚 . #aubergine #aubergineplant #eggplant #potager #gardening #growyourownfood #veggies #myitaliangarden #purple #purpleflowers #ilfautcultiversonjardin #lockdownpasti
Growing veggies in my potager (my latest new word: a garden where flowers and vegetables are cultivated side by side) is amazing! They grow so fast (here in Italy) beside the stately roses and trusty geraniums and then amaze you with the flashiest fl