The Giardino Bardini has many views, actually.
To begin, with the heat of summer upon us, it always nice to gaze at a fountain.
Or the silhouette of a sculpture in the shade.
But, then, there is the showstopper view! Eccola!
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Giardino Bardini and Villa Peyron
Many of the beautiful terra cotta pots in the Giardino Bardini bear this stamp. I hope to investigate it further. I imagine they were produced in Impruneta or possibly Siena. Will report back!
The perfect shoe for the little black dress.
Pearls included.
Why didn’t someone think of this a long time ago!
Straw hats and summer jewelry: gioielleria
Palio, Siena
The time of the new race is coming up soon. I was just looking through my pictures and found these from Siena, which I forgot to post months ago. Actually, I shot these on January 1, 2017.
Let’s think Siena!
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How does your garden grow?
My new little terrace garden seems to love the sun and heat of Florence! It’s doing better than I am!!
A sign of good things to come.
Pretty much every morning, on my way to language school, I pass my favorite pasticceria in Florence: Rivoire. When they are open (which is mostly every day, but not always), I stop in for a pasta da portare via, a pastry to go. You pay at the cassa, about 1.5 Euro, and then walk over and choose your poison. The cameriera wraps the pasta in a napkin and places it in a pretty little bag, as here:
My favorite pasta, or pastry, is a ciambella. A ciambella is a doughnut, but at Rivoire “a doughnut” hardly does justice to the confection. At Rivoire a ciambella is a yeasty circle of fried dough, covered in a granular sugar that covers your lips and cheeks when you’ve finished. Trust me, it’s worth the trouble of wiping your face! It is very much vale la pena.
Today Rivoire had no more ciambelle, so I got an apple strudel. OMG. This picture comes no where near how good it tasted!
Buon appetito!
Pretty windows, pretty sweets.
Summer candies at Mignone. Always a delight!
A beggar and a man of god.
In the staggering heat of today (90+ degrees F.), two people are overdressed for the weather. One is a beggar and the other a Franciscan monk.
As I watched this encounter take place between the two of them, I wondered: will the man of god give money to the beggar? Or, is he as poor as she?
He did not give her money, but I caught the encouragement and gentleness he shared with her. A passing moment of beauty.
And P.S., neither of them seem bothered by today’s heat. :-))
It grows on you.
I love this approach to the Duomo. I walk this path every day. It never grows old.
I love this angle of the Duomo as well. The thousands of tourists gather everyday at the facade of the cathedral, which is clean and polished. I prefer the gritty side view. It seems more authentic.
The side view is actually more authentic, because the fancy facade of the church is a 19th-century confection. The side is the original building.
Gritty and real and I love it. How lucky I feel to see it daily!
get back, lauretta! 
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