Thursday, November 19, 2009
Our Home Away From Home
We arrived safely and greeted everyone warmly, so excited that we were really there!
We were given a tour of the Farmhouse and shown our room on the third floor.
I felt like Cinderella, living up in the tower,as everyday I climbed up and down to the room.
I was able to get my stair-stepping in, no problem.
The room was very nice. The views over the vistas of farm and countryside were fantastic!
I would sit at my tiny window in my room and do my Morning Pages, in this case, I turned them into my diary of the daily happenings on the trip, and gaze out at the view.
We had a resident peacock that surprised us the first evening as we sat outside enjoying our bread and cheeses and wine. He flew up onto the railing and eventually settled in the tree branch alongside the patio for safety during the night.
One morning as I was writing, the peacock flew down into the field beyond. The sound caught my attention as I had never heard this type of fluttering.
My post:
Another day awakens, and as morning dawns and reveals her light upon this beautiful land. I look out upon the quieted landscape.
Across the valley, the little town lights still twinkle saying their last good nights to dawn.
I am amazed there are so many lights out there. I feel that we are so far away from anything other that nature itself .
Our little vista provides tranquility to our souls as we gaze across to the other hills.
A dog barks once or twice ,then a rooster crows, the birds begin to sing their sweet song of the morning. Soon the church bells will toll the wake up call to the villagers.
Another day is upon us.
The window sill makes my writing desk as I etch my memory of La Casa Del Podere.
We have been struck by the beautiful view provided from each window and are enchanted! The view keeps calling to the eye and camera. We have taken hundreds of pictures trying to captivate the natural beauty surrounding us here.
Houses dot the lush green landscape, farms and tilled soil have been put to rest for the soon coming winter. It is a delightful scene.
Yesterday, I came across an old woman gathering one of her last harvests from her garden.
She was all hunched over, bent from years of hard work on the land. A babushka covered her head, she peered at us, maybe surprised to see anyone out walking along the road beside her farm. We waved at her and shouted our buenjournos, but she dismissed us and escaped to the safety of her home.The family dog did the rest, as he barked his "GET AWAY FROM HERE", luckily it was tethered.
The resident peacock perches every evening in the tree just below our window. This morning it clucked and I thought that it might be a pheasant.I looked out the window quickly to see if I could find it in the freshly tilled field, and was surprised to see the peacock glide from it's perch into the field. How great to have witnessed this. Time is slowing me down , and I am loving it.
The church bell has just tolled , and time to rise and start the day, so I will close.
Today they are celebrating their annual Chestnut Festival in the town, and we are all looking forward to celebrating with them. We have never eaten chestnuts before.
I hope that you enjoy the post and pictures! ~M
We were given a tour of the Farmhouse and shown our room on the third floor.
I felt like Cinderella, living up in the tower,as everyday I climbed up and down to the room.
I was able to get my stair-stepping in, no problem.
The room was very nice. The views over the vistas of farm and countryside were fantastic!
I would sit at my tiny window in my room and do my Morning Pages, in this case, I turned them into my diary of the daily happenings on the trip, and gaze out at the view.
We had a resident peacock that surprised us the first evening as we sat outside enjoying our bread and cheeses and wine. He flew up onto the railing and eventually settled in the tree branch alongside the patio for safety during the night.
One morning as I was writing, the peacock flew down into the field beyond. The sound caught my attention as I had never heard this type of fluttering.
My post:
Another day awakens, and as morning dawns and reveals her light upon this beautiful land. I look out upon the quieted landscape.
Across the valley, the little town lights still twinkle saying their last good nights to dawn.
I am amazed there are so many lights out there. I feel that we are so far away from anything other that nature itself .
Our little vista provides tranquility to our souls as we gaze across to the other hills.
A dog barks once or twice ,then a rooster crows, the birds begin to sing their sweet song of the morning. Soon the church bells will toll the wake up call to the villagers.
Another day is upon us.
The window sill makes my writing desk as I etch my memory of La Casa Del Podere.
We have been struck by the beautiful view provided from each window and are enchanted! The view keeps calling to the eye and camera. We have taken hundreds of pictures trying to captivate the natural beauty surrounding us here.
Houses dot the lush green landscape, farms and tilled soil have been put to rest for the soon coming winter. It is a delightful scene.
Yesterday, I came across an old woman gathering one of her last harvests from her garden.
She was all hunched over, bent from years of hard work on the land. A babushka covered her head, she peered at us, maybe surprised to see anyone out walking along the road beside her farm. We waved at her and shouted our buenjournos, but she dismissed us and escaped to the safety of her home.The family dog did the rest, as he barked his "GET AWAY FROM HERE", luckily it was tethered.
The resident peacock perches every evening in the tree just below our window. This morning it clucked and I thought that it might be a pheasant.I looked out the window quickly to see if I could find it in the freshly tilled field, and was surprised to see the peacock glide from it's perch into the field. How great to have witnessed this. Time is slowing me down , and I am loving it.
The church bell has just tolled , and time to rise and start the day, so I will close.
Today they are celebrating their annual Chestnut Festival in the town, and we are all looking forward to celebrating with them. We have never eaten chestnuts before.
I hope that you enjoy the post and pictures! ~M
Sunday, November 15, 2009
THE View From The Terrace
We had the most exquisite view. In fact, It was the most photographed picture. We just could not get enough. Sunrise, sunset, in the rain, and in the evening... It was magical!
And So The Adventure Begins! La Casa Del Podere
It is quite incredible how time passes. At times it may crawl at a snail's pace, and other times race.
It is hard to believe that we have been home from this long yearned for holiday over a week now. It is just a memory fadeing all too fast. One that will be only looked back on by the rememberance of wonderful events and the thousands, yes, I said thousands, of photographs taken to capture the moments.
Steve took a camera along also, this helped with the waiting upon "Her Highness" slowing and stopping to take impressions that delighted her eyes. So now we have double the photos!!
We were a group of four couples. friends together and enjoying a foriegn land and a foriegn people.
Our Friends, Max and Anita had been planning this trip to Italy for some time, and the more we takled about it , the more I yearned to go along and experience the terre'.
The farmhouse that they rented was plenty big enough for another couple, so quickly we made plans to join them.
On October 2, off we flew to Bologna, and the farm house outside our new little town of Zocca.
It is incredible that you can have a map and a destination and be so incredibly unaware where you are, and drive around following somewhat clear directions, and find the exact spot where you are to be.
When we saw our friends at the wedding a few days before, we said our goodbyes knowing that the next time we saw each other, it would be in this magical spot!
Sure enough regardless of our wrong turn out of the airport, we made it and arrived safe and sound, and they were there too!
Here are a few pictures of the farm house, Casa del Podere Podere.
Built in a hamlet in the mountain region of Modena.
It is hard to believe that we have been home from this long yearned for holiday over a week now. It is just a memory fadeing all too fast. One that will be only looked back on by the rememberance of wonderful events and the thousands, yes, I said thousands, of photographs taken to capture the moments.
Steve took a camera along also, this helped with the waiting upon "Her Highness" slowing and stopping to take impressions that delighted her eyes. So now we have double the photos!!
We were a group of four couples. friends together and enjoying a foriegn land and a foriegn people.
Our Friends, Max and Anita had been planning this trip to Italy for some time, and the more we takled about it , the more I yearned to go along and experience the terre'.
The farmhouse that they rented was plenty big enough for another couple, so quickly we made plans to join them.
On October 2, off we flew to Bologna, and the farm house outside our new little town of Zocca.
It is incredible that you can have a map and a destination and be so incredibly unaware where you are, and drive around following somewhat clear directions, and find the exact spot where you are to be.
When we saw our friends at the wedding a few days before, we said our goodbyes knowing that the next time we saw each other, it would be in this magical spot!
Sure enough regardless of our wrong turn out of the airport, we made it and arrived safe and sound, and they were there too!
Here are a few pictures of the farm house, Casa del Podere Podere.
Built in a hamlet in the mountain region of Modena.
Me and my Honey, Three Days Before The Big Trip
Here is a picture of the two adventurers at my dear friend's son's wedding.We were able to visit and celebrate the wedding with other dear friends,And celebrate the upcomming trip we had planned this past few months.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
~There's No Place like Home,(but is sure is fun to get away!)
Hello my darlings~
I have returned from a fabulous time away with my sweetheart!
We had a wonderful time traveling about and having adventures walking through the countryside looking for banks and McDonalds or just anyone who was there,( I will explain further in an upcoming blog), to extremely emotional times, being amidst the nature and beauty that inspired Monet to paint his beautiful Water Lilies, stood along the wall where Van Gogh painted Stary Night,and fell in love with the Eiffel Tower as it sparked in it's splendid beauty in the Paris night.
We arrived home to find that our computer had crashed while we were gone and have had to settel in a bit and then go out to replace it.
I will post some pictures and blog the trip soon.
First I must wade through the pictures. ~
I have returned from a fabulous time away with my sweetheart!
We had a wonderful time traveling about and having adventures walking through the countryside looking for banks and McDonalds or just anyone who was there,( I will explain further in an upcoming blog), to extremely emotional times, being amidst the nature and beauty that inspired Monet to paint his beautiful Water Lilies, stood along the wall where Van Gogh painted Stary Night,and fell in love with the Eiffel Tower as it sparked in it's splendid beauty in the Paris night.
We arrived home to find that our computer had crashed while we were gone and have had to settel in a bit and then go out to replace it.
I will post some pictures and blog the trip soon.
First I must wade through the pictures. ~
Thursday, October 01, 2009
California Dreamin' Once Again
The afternoon was a lovely one as two young lover's pledged to cherish each other for evermore and on into infinity.
The sun sent spirals of light on to the waters below the cliffs, the clouds providing a beautiful sunset along with a "rainbow of promise" for the young lovers.
What a beautiful evening!
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