02/19/2010 - Treasures in the Garbage
When I lived in the States, I was a garage sale freak, and almost every weekend I’d be prowling around in other people’s old junk.

02/12/2010 - Italian Agriculture on TV
I don’t usually watch sports on the weekends much here in Italy, because the soccer matches are all on closed circuit. But what I do get to watch is spectacular, and that is a smorgasbord of wonderful agricultural shows that focus mostly on Italian small farmers.

02/05/2010 - Broccoli Weather
In Italy, these last days of January are called Giorni del Merlo, or the days of the robin, and are usually the coldest days of the year.

01/29/2010 - Fiera!
Today was an exceptionally fun day for me because it was the day that the big open air fiera (fair) came to Rapallo.

01/22/2010 - The Neighborhood
I love Via Betti , which is the street on which we live.

01/15/2010 - Garden Progress
This January marks the fourth year that we have been building the garden on the cliff next to our home.

01/08/2010 - Pruning Time
It’s finally cold enough that all the fruit trees in the garden, including the apples, have dropped their leaves, so I pruned my deciduous fruit trees today.

12/25/2009 - Sunny Italy
Lots of parts of Italy remained below freezing for two days this weekend as a cold wave came down from Russia.

12/18/2009 - Italian Landslides
We had an unexpected visitor in the garden this week, in the form of a large rock that just appeared by itself on a small flat area near the northern edge.

12/11/2009 - Italian Dogs
I’m crazy about dogs. My cats don’t permit me to have a dog myself, but luckily, I get to play with a lot of dogs on the streets of Rapallo.