Thursday Doors 23/3/23: Capalbio Scalo primary school 1.

When I returned from my summer vacation in Slovenia last September, the primary school in our little town held not one but three surprises. One of them concerns a certain door that used to make me mad. A convenient shortcut to the train station, which passes through the school courtyard, I have often taken in

Thursday not really Doors 16/3/23: Capalbio Scalo

Previous week I showed you our train station and once I was there, I took the long way home. It lasted an hour to reach it. I wish to show you my walk, no matter that there were not many doors to speak of. But first: Take the fibre, they said. It will be fast,

Thursday Doors 9/3/23: Capalbio train station

When I found myself standing in front of an open door of a train, a thought crossed my mind… Dan = doors + trains! Perfect! So yes, this is just behind our tiny train station. Capalbio is the name of the medieval town on the hill 15 minutes away by car, so I can imagine

Last photos of February

Here are two last photos of last month featuring the usual suspects. Very quickly: one dog, the last photo taken with my camera… …and two goofballs, the last one taken with my phone. There was an online carnival again, you see. With good wishes, your Pippi. Bushboy’s rules are simple: 1. Post the last photo

New moon book on Monday

Yes, it’s Monday, yes, it’s the new moon, and yes, the book with my moon poem is out now! The Polaris Trilogy: Poems for the Moon with poems selected to travel to the Moon with NASA next year was published by Brick Street Poetry, Inc. and is available through Amazon.com (and regional Amazon websites) here:

Thursday Doors 16/2/23: Early spring in Rome

This week I give you spring sights and not as many but at least fresh doors from this weekend in Monteverde, a residential district in western Rome. This Sunday we went to Rome for lunch to celebrate a couple of family birthdays. As soon as we arrived and bestia greeted everybody (so happy to finally

Last photos of January

Two last photos of last month today with minimum amount of drama for bushboy’s challenge. Drama is where you find it and I’m not searching. Full moon (so I don’t eat for 24 hours). Kyrie Irving on Luka’s team. (Who? Better you don’t know.) Cold wind as if it came from the Arctic (it has).

Last photos of December and best news of 2022

Yes, this is now. Here are two last photos of the past year taken with my camera and my phone, plus quite an astonishing piece of news. How are you in the new year? We had amore’s father over here in the wilderness of Tuscany, we ate well, there were zero noises from the outside

Last four of November

This time, finally, my last photo above and the three penultimate ones of the past month come with zero drama attached. Plus there is a story. But… what is that in the middle of the field? A huge loose Maremma shepherd getting ready to attack? No, no, just a girl dog neighbour who doesn’t dare

Last photos of October

This post will be brief, to the point and drama-less. Sure, easy for me to say. What about the praying mantises about to be hatched? I laughed when I saw my friend K.’s comment on Facebook: “Soon you will be an auntie!” Quite. A praying mantis decided to lay her eggs on our gate. Apparently