Spring is in full swing here in Umbria. A feast of incredible colours. Some pictures.......
Colour feast
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Sunny days in Umbria
We have some bad weather coming our way but for the past few days we really had lots of sunshine. The olive tree was the last to receive a 'haircut'. The other pictures is the field one of the houses here looks out over.
Visit the Abbey of Montelabate near Perugia
This year we, Villa in Umbria, are organising for our guests a visit to the Montelabate abbey. This is a unique possibility to view this recently restored abbey, usually closed for visitors. After the brief visit we will taste some of the locally made products of the...
Lilae
In Italian these are called 'Lilla' (in Dutch 'Sering'). The Italian and English make a lot more sense than the Dutch word for these impressive flowers that come accompanied with a wonderful smell.
The Pro way
As mentioned before it is the time of the year to go hunting for the slender wild asparagus stalks. Well, I say hunting it is more searching with a very big S. You see one of the great talents of the wild asparagus is to hide itself from view. You know the shoots have...
Homemade Pranzo
Just as we started driving full throttle up the hill we was halted by one of our neighbours. They are always interested in what we are up to and they must have spotted the big branches filling the car. "Hazelnut and fig trees someone donated us", we explained. Great,...
spring flowers
Telescopic Universal Cutter
It still is olive clipping time over here and we ran into some problems with some high trees. The ground beneath the trees is too uneven to put a ladder on and some branches can't be reached from inside the tree. Off course this is a widely known problem and there is...
Agri Umbria.
It is spring here in Umbria which means........AgriUmbria. Every year around this time every Umbrian, well ... it really can get quite busy, heads to Bastia Umbra to take part in the three day agrarian feast. Whether you need some chickens, ducks, tools for pruning...
The first wild asparagus
This makes a person really happy ... and it is not for sale!!!
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