My favourite time of day is the early evening. This shot was taken around 7:30PM. I had finished watering the newly planted grass of the new terrace on the other side of the house.
The evening's rays turn everything gold, soft, easy. Even Il Poggiolo basks in the light. Once, it looked so grey & forlorn. Now, after two years of re-construction, a new roof, windows & doors... and a newly restored & installed antique iron railing!!!... help to brighten its portrait.
I love to sit in a deck-chair on the terrace right above the Upstairs Apartment to take-in the after 6PM scene. In the distance, as the sun recedes behind the hills which define our little valley, I can hear the roar of a couple of tractors returning to their garages in the borgo after a late-afternoon foray to the olive groves, the slowing whoosh of the cars winding their way home through our village, dogs barking here & there and, always, the constant rustle of the Aullela River. Naturally, there is a glass of white wine at my side. All it needs would be The Dog to be at my feet to share in this Moment. However, mine hits the divano early. Gads.
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