Thank you for this beautiful work! By the way, as a longtime member of Calm, I think I’ve listened to your yurt story about 121 times over the years. It had a unique relaxing effect on my imagination, even though it made me want to stay in one of the yurts so badly!
Thank you for bringing all of these stories and illustrations of Italy together, Candace! I want to visit Umbria! I love that there is a special artisanal watercolor shop that makes paints of specifically Italian colors!
Beautiful, Candace. I also love the cypress trees in Italy.
I once drove from Frankfurt to a village in Switzerland, where I stayed overnight and discovered the people there spoke Romansh, a language completely foreign to my ears. Early the next morning, I headed south to Italy, got lost in Milan for an hour or so, continued to head south until I started seeing cypress trees. As I was enjoying the trees, I saw a sign for the town of Parma. In Idaho, we have a town called Parma, which has a little airstrip with a giant cottonwood tree growing very close to the end of the runway, but instead of growing wheat, our Parma grows tons and tons of onions.
I continued south until I arrived at the outskirts of Rome (we also have a Rome on the eastern border of Oregon, but our Rome has only a handful of buildings on the banks of the Owyhee River that was named after some Hawaiian fur trappers who were lost near there and never found), I hired a taxi driver to lead me to my hotel and as I followed, he turned a corner and suddenly, I was driving straight toward St. Peter’s Basilica.
I love it when you joined your series of stories together in a full article like this. It's lovely to reread the stories and to see how the themes blend together.
Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you for this beautiful work! By the way, as a longtime member of Calm, I think I’ve listened to your yurt story about 121 times over the years. It had a unique relaxing effect on my imagination, even though it made me want to stay in one of the yurts so badly!
Just beautiful Candace, and so evocative of time spent in Umbria ❤
Smiling while reading this, laughing out loud when aunt Vera asked if you visited the basilica... Thanks for sharing these colourful stories, Candace!
Just the most beautiful thing I read today! I just recently went to Italy, but did not get to Assisi.
This brings me joy. Thank you.
This is so beautiful and charming.
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Thank you for bringing all of these stories and illustrations of Italy together, Candace! I want to visit Umbria! I love that there is a special artisanal watercolor shop that makes paints of specifically Italian colors!
Wonderful work. Like unfurling a precious scroll inscribed with a story.
I live in Perugia, chief town of Assisi. Thanks to Candace, she described beautifully Umbrian hills and the colors I love so.
I live in Perugia, chief town of Assisi. Thanks to Candace, she described beautifully Umbrian hills and the colors I love so.
lovely!
Beautiful, Candace. I also love the cypress trees in Italy.
I once drove from Frankfurt to a village in Switzerland, where I stayed overnight and discovered the people there spoke Romansh, a language completely foreign to my ears. Early the next morning, I headed south to Italy, got lost in Milan for an hour or so, continued to head south until I started seeing cypress trees. As I was enjoying the trees, I saw a sign for the town of Parma. In Idaho, we have a town called Parma, which has a little airstrip with a giant cottonwood tree growing very close to the end of the runway, but instead of growing wheat, our Parma grows tons and tons of onions.
I continued south until I arrived at the outskirts of Rome (we also have a Rome on the eastern border of Oregon, but our Rome has only a handful of buildings on the banks of the Owyhee River that was named after some Hawaiian fur trappers who were lost near there and never found), I hired a taxi driver to lead me to my hotel and as I followed, he turned a corner and suddenly, I was driving straight toward St. Peter’s Basilica.
When one is tired of Italy, one is tired of life.
Lovely!!
I love it when you joined your series of stories together in a full article like this. It's lovely to reread the stories and to see how the themes blend together.