All posts tagged: Italy in October

a nostalgic october

October was never my favorite month and for the longest time I looked at it as a time of year getting closer to winter, the colder weather, the shorter days. But in the past two or three years, I’ve embraced the month for more reasons than I care to list here; foremost because of the changing of the leaves. The only trouble is, San Francisco doesn’t experience such a transition since most of the trees planted are evergreen. So as always I long to travel East to Vermont or Canada just so I could get a glimpse of this: {photo reference click here}

villa in tuscany if only for a week

I just can’t snap out of it, I know I have said this before, but it really is difficult to go to Europe, even for two week, then come back to the states and adjust to the every day norm. While I was in Tuscany, the day tour I took drove through some of the most beautiful landscapes in that part of the world and the guide pointed out numerous villas perched up on the hillside. Of course, every woman on the bus awed and oohed, while the husbands rolled their eyes or laughed at us for fantasizing  about owning one. Now, I for one, have always dreamed of moving to Paris some day but in addition to my fantasy of living in Paris, I wouldn’t mind owning a Tuscan villa just for the summer months :).  So, to make my day less gloomy, I found my villa of choice from here.  Happy Monday.