What a beautiful bird which Chris and I spotted on our walk in Loppia, a little town not far from Art Toscana Art Retreats in Italy. At first we thought it was a large heron, but it was too big, and then we thought maybe a stork. No you don’t get storks in this part
Georgie can’t resist immersing himself in crispy autumn leaves. I suppose it’s like a canine full body massage; the crackling and crunching sound of the leaves adding to the pleasure. The leaves arrived during the last few windy nights. We woke up yesterday to find we couldn’t open the back door without the autumn foliage
It’s a good job we don’t run courses in the winter at Art Toscana Art Courses in Italy because we would have to do a mammoth amount of leaf clearing to make it look tidy. It usually takes us weeks every year with the help of the gardener. We start clearing when all of the