Appreciation of art - Sistine Chapel version

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A lot of good art can be seen in Rome, and TPP thinks perhaps Michelangelo's  famous ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is some of the best. ...

Friday Fabulous Flower- squash blossom

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OK TPP is in Rome; and we’ve been splitting a pizza for lunch. This one is the best one yet: cherry tomatoes, squash flowers, and cheese....
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Pollarded Sycamores

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Since this topic came up TPP has seen new examples, and here's one where relatively young sycamore trees have been pollarded into a sh...

Gelato flavor of the week - Mugo pine

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Most of you would not know this, but Mrs. Phactor has a serious gelato problem, and here in Rome where gelato shops are around every corner,...

Friday Fabulous Flower - cute weed

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Lots of rock/brick walls where we are in Italy, and lots of different weeds growing on them.  Several are quite nice plants for filling ro...
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You want cheese with that?

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TPP had a ham sandwich for lunch. It was Parma ham sliced tissue thin, on a panino roll, and melted gorgonzola cheese.  Now think about what...

Trains, boats, & planes, & coaches lead to coppiced trees

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No boats actually, but the other three came into play, and clearly TPP is not in Kansas any more, not that he was or even wanted to be.  ...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - It's red, and it's a buckeye

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Too many nice things flowering right now making it hard to choose; 5 different azaleas, 6 or so different peonies, a Carolina silver bell...

Friday Fabulous Flower - Crested Iris

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Our gardens look pretty good right now. Lots of flowering shrubs, lots of wild flowers.  And sometimes little things tend to get overlook...
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Signs of healthy garden

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It was a busy gardening week, lots of shrubs to clip back, lots of leaves to clean up, lots of planting and moving (new location for kitchen...