May in Bloom

Poppies growing out of our garden wall

Once again it has been too long since we have posted, but rest assured we have been busy.  My cousin Liz and Noel visited us in early May.  Of course, we checked out a few wineries with them.

As you may have surmised, Carmen's favorite photo subjects are plants and flowers.  She has diligently chronicled springtime in Tuscany and we tried to put more pictures up to her Flickr site, but were frustrated by our extremely low bandwidth here.  So this post will be lots of photos, little narrative.  To start, a sequence of scenes around our place:

This next sequence is from the region around Greve in Chianti when we were on our winery tour with Liz and Noel.

Unusual multi-colored irises

As we close this post, our daughter Liz and husband Jeremy have been with us for a week, in which time we have explored Rome, and Venice and Murano.  Look for our report in our next post **soon**