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Originally Posted by susie123
Lovely - presume that tree with pink flowers is the Lagerstroemia you showed us recently? When I showed Richard the picture of the arched roof you posted earlier he asked me if it was Roman!
Have been looking at Castelverde on Google satellite and an educated guess tells me that your farm is on the Via Enrico Fermi/Via Livrasco - I know you have mentioned Livrasco in the past. Interesting that there are all those fields and not a single animal to be seen - not even your donkeys! I couldn't work out where the castle is even though I know what it looks like...
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So as I have nothing else to post today, my day in pictures is - my loo windowsill! and the things on it
1, 2, 3, 4 The big barnacles
5 Picture of yachts through a window by Matisse - my view from that window is yachts in the yacht club pound
6 Glass shrimps and a toy ship
7 Shells and souvenir china from Morecambe
8 Shrimp up close
9 Magnetic lobster on the mirror bracket
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I love the barnacles (now I know what they are!) -could they be used as tea-light holders or perhaps for flower arrangements?
We are on Via Livrasco - great detective work! Yes , it is the Lagerstroemia -there are about 6 of them in front of the houses.
Not many animals in the fields -we have a few on the green spaces around inside the farm but it's very unusual here to see them out. Reason : extreme pressure for land -it's very intensively cultivated and mostly used for maize in this area and some hay. A lot of building is going on in Italy too (so much for the recession!) which has pushed land prices through the roof therefore it is not economically viable to have livestock out on grass!
The Castle is at Cascina Breda dei Bugni - outside the village between Castleverde and Cremona (less than 1 km I think) it could be called Via Breda but i'm not 100% sure.
Have been trying some seppia effects on some of my shots round the farm -very effective -makes it looks like they could have been taken 100 yrs ago! Will post some tomorrow...
