Shall we take a walk through my backyard………….

White and Yellow roses those are my colors I chose so many years ago!White for its sheer beauty and Yellow for “an end to an affair!”

An affair you say………YES!An affair I had with ITALY!

You see I moved there in 1991.

I was told I would fall in love with Italy or miss the States………by year three I would know.

Guess what?I fell in LOVE with ITALY!

My husbands family had chickens………….

I felt I needed some chickens too here.

I have an obsession with old garden cement ornaments…………..

Maybe because the husband works with cement now!

Or perhaps,I saw too many old antique VILLA’S and CASA COLONICA’S as I traveled up the VIA ROMA  and down to FLORENCE.

 

These steps I call the SPANISH STEPS………not exactly like the ones in ROME but they are my Spanish steps.

White because they stand out in the night sky.Don’t you just love that tinge of pink?

Yellow because I had to leave ITALY and come home.

My husband calls it a jungle………….

I call it a little bit of heaven.

Twenty years ago………. come June I left Italy……….

Only to have created a home and garden that reminds me daily of that time so long ago lost on a hilltop with a view of the DUOMO surrounded by ROMAN roads……..