Of Cats & Fish

Walking around Montalcino the other day, looking for a particular agency I needed to get to, I spotted this minuscule shop selling fish. I know I have passed that way before to get to the "Why Not" Gelateria at the end of the corner, but I had really never noticed this door before.  It's underneath Piazza Garibaldi, built right into the wall - and apparently very popular when it is open on Tuesday mornings. Elderly towns women gossiping up a storm and sharing information and some feline admirers as well...

Lightness of Being

We have hardly been here a week and the countryside has bloomed like fireworks into green wheat stalks and yellow flowers. Every hill rolls underneath the blue sky at just the right angle. I have often heard and of course found myself saying that the light here in the Senese is a particular light and so it is.

It isn't just the sky that has the light. Or the hills and leaves on trees. The people too and also the animals. There is Shep the Wonder Dog that I wrote about before and I am beginning to think he might be the main reason we came her. He is truly a prince and a light source for Anima, who has fallen for him in a hard way.

I have decided that everyone deserves to see Shep and his light and so I have put up a Daily Shep onto Tumblr where Ani has her Anima Trvls blog for pictures. Please click onto the link in a few days time and see the wonderful Shep collection ...you'll get a laugh at his wonderfullness and nod in agreement at his lightness of being.

100 Days 2011: Spike and Shy Wonder Why

 New addition to 100 Days 2011, an interactive blogging experience. In collaboration with Miss A aka 'The Girl'.
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