La casa e tutto… (home is everything)

Thursday

Returning to Umbria and the farmhouse feels like coming home after a vacation. I could do without the 3-centimeter scorpion inside and the snake outside (both apparently harmless; how reassuring), but still, it is so beautiful that one can forgive these little imperfections.

In the morning, I take my sunrise walk and am again greeted with the cheerful grin of the sunflower. Several kilometers down the road I turn the corner and find this view of the distant Todi. But it’s the fourth photo from the ones below that brings the agricultural elements of the region together for me: sunflowers, vineyards and olive groves.