Letter from Rome

All over Italy, the swifts, swallows and martins fill the morning and evening skies with their melodious cries. It is spring in Italy and how absolutely […]

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La Passione ! (A Roman Terrace Garden)

Take one reasonably nice but uninspired Roman terrace, with ten years of accumulated, cluttered pots and four untended olive trees. Add plants – principally geraniums […]

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Seasons

Perhaps it is that our children are in a Waldorf school, where seasons are celebrated so regularly.  Perhaps it is that I am at our […]

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