Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Wild orchid in our garden

Today during a walk to look for some fresh flowers, we had a nice surprise: wild orchids under the hazel trees!! Wild orchids in our garden! I do not know how widespread and common this specific kind of wild orchid is here in the region, but it's the first one we see here... and we are all excited that such a beautiful and exotic flower , grow in our garden!

Monday, May 4, 2009

Festa della Barbera

This last weekend we had in Castagnole the " Festa della Barbera".

Barbera is the wine that dominates our local production here in the area. We had dances and music

and markets with lot of colors, typical food products and a lot of people all around us...

Our guests left.

It was a beautiful, international, sunny, crowed, tasty, sleepless, colorful weekend! thank you.