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Amalfi Coast Travel Winter Weather Ravello

TRAVEL · January 9, 2016

Winter Weather Layers

The first week of this new year has come and gone seemingly in a haze. Mostly because it has been rainy and grey with low lying clouds that actually do make it hazy. At least outside my house! As I write, big clouds are blowing by thanks to strong winds from the sea. Classic winter weather on the ...

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Ravello Festival Photo by Pino Izzo

TRAVEL · May 30, 2015

The Ravello Festival 2015

If you're planning a trip to the Amalfi Coast, mark your calendars for June 20th to September 5th for the Ravello Festival. The 63rd edition of the popular festival dedicated to music, theater, opera, dance and the arts is set to be a blockbuster with an outstanding line up of performances. The ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Spring Blossoms Bees

TRAVEL · April 22, 2015

Beautiful Spring Blossoms on the Amalfi Coast

My heart soars when the trees burst into bloom and the air is full of the sweet scent of wisteria on the Amalfi Coast. Spring has officially arrived and brought with it all the excitement of a new season. Tiny leaves are the brightest shades of green and the valleys glow with a vibrant new tint. You ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Spring Weather Ravello April

TRAVEL · April 18, 2015

Dramatic Clouds Rolling in Over Ravello

April has been a bit of tease so far this year leaving many locals wondering just what happened to spring. It Italy there's an old saying "marzo è pazzo," that March is crazy, and I've overheard quite a few people saying that it's not just March. For every hazy, grey day another brilliant spring day ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Winter Mist Ravello

TRAVEL · January 30, 2015

Winter Rest on the Amalfi Coast

I don't get the winter blues as the change of seasons just feels right to me. I enjoy watching the way the light shifts and the color palette of nature takes on more muted hues. Gone are the bright bursts of orange beach umbrellas against the expansive blue sky, the brilliant glow of hot pink ...

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Autumn Colors in Ravello on the Amalfi Coast

TRAVEL · November 4, 2014

Autumn Reflections

It has been hard to know what to write. Tomorrow will be three weeks that my husband has been sick, and every day I hope he will be feeling better. We're thankful that it's nothing extremely serious and we're anticipating a full recovery. It has just been very tough and very slow. On the days when I ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu

PHOTOGRAPHY · August 29, 2014

Foto Friday | Nel blu dipinto di blu

Oh, it's good to be back home on the Amalfi Coast. Since moving here many years ago, I've never traveled back to America in the summer. After enjoying warm weather, sunshine, fresh picked sweet corn and BLTs in Nebraska, I realize what I've been missing. But then I come home and see colors like this ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Pink Flowers Campanile

PHOTOGRAPHY · July 5, 2014

Pink Flowers on the Bell Tower

In early summer the Amalfi Coast blushes a bright pink. When the days become warm and spring showers have turned everything a lush green, the valerian flowers burst out, quite literally, from every nook and cranny. They poke out of crumbly stone walls, drape over the walkways through villages and ...

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Ravello Festival 2014 Photo by Pino Izzo

TRAVEL · June 21, 2014

Ravello Festival 2014

The stage is set, the lights are ready, the gardens perfectly manicured and the 2014 Ravello Festival is ready to begin! With the spectacular Amalfi Coast and Bay of Salerno as the backdrop, many performances will take place in the Villa Rufolo on a stage that seems to cling dramatically to the very ...

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Ciao Amalfi Coast Travel Finding Center

PHOTOGRAPHY · June 20, 2014

Foto Friday | Finding Center

This week I've finished up a massive writing project that has kept me even busier than usual of late. It felt good. It felt very good! But now that things are settling back into the normal level of busy, it's time once again to focus on balance and recenter. Lately life has felt a little too much ...

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Amalfi Coast Art Exhibit Ravello Alba Gonzales

HISTORY & CULTURE · May 3, 2014

Alba Gonzales | Ravello

Following a twisty, narrow road down from the center of Ravello, you'll find the striking Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer. I enjoy its gleaming white curves and especially the piazzale with a sweeping view of the Amalfi Coast. It's the perfect spot to display large sculptural artwork, and I'm pleased to ...

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Amalfi Coast Travel Glorious April Weather

TRAVEL · April 14, 2014

Glorious April Weather

Leave me alone with a view like that and some sort of photographic device and you can bet that I'll try to capture it in some way. That's what I did with my several year old simple Samsung phone this morning when looking out at the blue sky and sea. What a glorious spring day! It's just so ...

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What 31 days of January morning walks looks like. What 31 days of January morning walks looks like. It’s been gorgeous and windy and stormy and wild - and everything in between. Should I pick a different spot to take a photo a day next month?
Non Amalfi Coast question. Do you wake up in the m Non Amalfi Coast question. Do you wake up in the morning with music or a song in your head? I do nearly every morning and it’s curious to me what shows up. Usually it’s something I’ve been listening to, but sometimes it’s really random, like someone’s left the music room door slightly ajar in the brain. This morning it was a jaunty version of “Loch Lomond” from the 1940s sung by Maxine Sullivan. (You’d think that would be from the random category but I actually listened to it yesterday.) So that’s what was swinging about in my head as I took a walk early this morning. 🎶
Happy Burns Night! I love a country that has a hol Happy Burns Night! I love a country that has a holiday for their national poet. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Here’s one of my favorite poems he wrote.

Musing On The Roaring Ocean
by Robert Burns

Musing on the roaring ocean, 
Which divides my love and me; 
Wearying heav’n in warm devotion, 
For his weal where’er he be. 

Hope and Fear’s alternate billow 
Yielding late to Nature’s law, 
Whispering spirits round my pillow, 
Talk of him that’s far awa. 

Ye whom sorrow never wounded, 
Ye who never shed a tear, 
Care-untroubled, joy-surrounded, 
Gaudy day to you is dear. 

Gentle night, do thou befriend me, 
Downy sleep, the curtain draw; 
Spirits kind, again attend me, 
Talk of him that’s far awa!
After a wild and windy night, there’s a dusting After a wild and windy night, there’s a dusting of snow atop the mountains of the Amalfi Coast. ❄️
On January 1st, I started going out for an early m On January 1st, I started going out for an early morning walk, and it has quickly become my favorite part of the day. This morning—after four days of rainy and cloudy mornings—I watched sunrise over the Cilento coastline across the Gulf of Salerno. Late morning it started raining again and it hasn’t stopped. This little pocket of beauty was exhilarating!
After the storm as the sky clears. #Amalfi #CiaoAm After the storm as the sky clears. #Amalfi #CiaoAmalfi
Winter weather has arrived on the Amalfi Coast! Ou Winter weather has arrived on the Amalfi Coast! Outside there’s the roar of the rough sea and strong winds in the mountain valley. This photo was a moment of relative calm yesterday morning as the storm came in.
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