Into each life, some rain must fall.
Agreed, but thanks to the precipitation of this past winter and early spring, 2013 has been the year with the most rainfall in Florence for the past 50 years. In my just-previous Easter blog, I predicted it might stop raining on the day of the Resurrection.
It actually did--and on the following day, Easter Monday, as well.
Then it started again. Above is the scene in our Borgo Albizi courtyard from the office window.
Thanks to gray, overcast skies, the wisteria has only produced a few, timid blossoms,
and the fig tree it is wrapped around, just one leaf!
Faithful Beautiful Florence blog photographer Bree Chun and I decided to take a stroll around downtown Florence in search of some color, and warmth.
We found it on the new pedestrian-only zone comprising the sidewalk and road in front of the
designer shops on via Tornabuoni.
The medieval palace in the background is no other than the Ferragamo flagship store.
Via Tornabuoni also hosts the pricey boutiques of Prada, Armani, Gucci and Tods, just to name a few.
If this is how these shops are using the mark-ups on their astronomically prized clothes,
I applaud their efforts. The rose pink and magenta colors stand out against a backdrop of silver gray light and matching sidewalks.
Walking back to Borgo degli Albizi, Bree and I turned into via Porta Rossa,
where a surprise awaited us--an imaginative, cheerful window display.
No, it was not the usual show of shoes, handbags and pastel spring clothes...
...it was a celebration of the new Pope! Papa Nuovo in Italian, and popping out of an Easter egg to greet and bless the world. Mind you, this is Florence, not Rome and the shop in question sells objects in silver. The eggs in the silver holders--creative advertising--below the papal poster are inscribed with the member names of the college of cardinals who were in the running for the top job.
Papanuovo is also a clever play on words since
ovo means egg in Italian.
Easter eggs are traditional fertility symbols, so one can only hope that...
April showers will bring May flowers.
As a contrast to the scene outside our window, here is a May preview--provided by a vase of freesias on the office table.
Maybe spring is merely a state of mind.
Reporting live from Beautiful Florence
-- Rosanna
Agreed, but thanks to the precipitation of this past winter and early spring, 2013 has been the year with the most rainfall in Florence for the past 50 years. In my just-previous Easter blog, I predicted it might stop raining on the day of the Resurrection.
It actually did--and on the following day, Easter Monday, as well.
Then it started again. Above is the scene in our Borgo Albizi courtyard from the office window.
Thanks to gray, overcast skies, the wisteria has only produced a few, timid blossoms,
and the fig tree it is wrapped around, just one leaf!
Faithful Beautiful Florence blog photographer Bree Chun and I decided to take a stroll around downtown Florence in search of some color, and warmth.
We found it on the new pedestrian-only zone comprising the sidewalk and road in front of the
designer shops on via Tornabuoni.
Via Tornabuoni also hosts the pricey boutiques of Prada, Armani, Gucci and Tods, just to name a few.
I applaud their efforts. The rose pink and magenta colors stand out against a backdrop of silver gray light and matching sidewalks.
Walking back to Borgo degli Albizi, Bree and I turned into via Porta Rossa,
where a surprise awaited us--an imaginative, cheerful window display.
No, it was not the usual show of shoes, handbags and pastel spring clothes...
Papanuovo is also a clever play on words since
ovo means egg in Italian.
Easter eggs are traditional fertility symbols, so one can only hope that...
April showers will bring May flowers.
As a contrast to the scene outside our window, here is a May preview--provided by a vase of freesias on the office table.
Maybe spring is merely a state of mind.
-- Rosanna
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