fiori e ...poi mele

Oggi Lara e Lucia sono uscite di nuovo in giardino dopo 2 giorni di raffreddore passati in casa ..... ecco che quindi adesso sul tavolo abbiamo fiori e dopo mezz'ora anche le mele!!

Lara e Lucia hanno deciso che era importante raccogliere le ultime mele che erano cadute a terra con il vento di ieri sera, visto che - come ha detto Lara - noi non avevamo piú mele in casa ed é ora di fare uno strüdel !

Allora adesso .... al lavoro . Stasera si mangia lo strüdel !

Woman gets soul with child. Not necessary have child, necessary readiness for child.

G.I. Gurdjieff

our harvest

Yesterday we had our "harvest"! Well, harvest is a little too much , let' say we decided our one and only grape was ready to be tasted. Yes, exactly our one and only grape. I took the grapevine with me from Italy last year to have a little bit of italia in our garden here in Austria. The grapewine itself it's called "uva italia"! and this summer we got our first grape. Tasty! And the girls enjoyed one grape berry after the other...

... and it lasted long.

Zoo

Within one week it was today our second afternoon at the zoo in Vienna. Her favorites animals....

and it's amazing how much fun she has then just listing the names of the animals she knows ...

we will be there again soon!

outside

Another wonderful summer day to spend outside.... we are enjoying so much the time outside in the garden. playing, eating, sleeping, observing...

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!

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.

Gardening

The view from Farineris today was amazingly beautiful. Finally after so much rain, we woke up with sun and all around us the Alps in snow. Beautiful.

And we did a lot of gardening. Flowers, flowers , flowers and long , long mowing.

And we had a lot of fun all together. And learned new interesting/funny tasks.

Our guests arrive tomorrow afternoon and stay over the weekend.

We have fine tuning to be done to the menus, and then we are done with the preparation.