A DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY

Yesterday morning, sometime before we woke up, there was another surprise thunderstorm. We've had quite a few of these lately...none of them last long enough to gvie the ground a really good soaking, but at least the storms have come often enough so that everything is ataying nice and green. Another benfit of these storms is that the air is so incredibly clear afterwards, and combined with the next-to-nothing humidity that we have, you can see for miles and miles...or I guess here in Italy is would be kilometers and kilometers.

We took the road past Rotecastello, through Spineta, past Fratta Todina, then decided to head in the direction of San Terenziano. Along the way we stopped at the little mom and pop winery just outside of Bastardo where Art likes to fill-up our five liter jug, and while there we also bought a bottle of their olive oil....at this point we're just trying to get by until the new oil is ready sometime in November.

Here are the grapes we saw...





And the olives that are getting plumper....



And we also saw this field of strange looking plants with leaves like corn, and thanks to the wonders of the internet, several people have now told me this is sorghum......



And of course just the beautiful countryside...