As usual, our street corner greengrocers were ahead of the crowd in welcoming a new season.  In this case, it was springtime which (in Italy) is welcomed with as much enthusiasm as Christmas — minus the stress.  A true springtime delight in the form of outrageously red strawberries just in from Basilicata filled one whole […]

It was early in May of 2014.  We  were on our way to Greece after a brief stopover in Rome.  While wandering about on a Sunday afternoon we came upon this startling piece of work done by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1667.  So much of his work is in museums that to be able to […]