Here's a post that shamelessly borrows title and headline image (credit Peter Schrank ) from an article that appeared in my favorite...

About a year ago I got in touch with Emmanuelle Dechelette (pictured), founder and curator of an olive oil competition called Olio Nuovo...

Blog readers diligent enough to check the weather in central Tuscany will know we've been inundated with rain... for about five months...

Last time I blogged on a motorhead theme I made light of a 1970s Lamborghini tractor I'd spotted a few hundred meters from our front...

Amongst this winter's multiple projects is a complete rebuild and bump in capacity of Poggiosole's photovoltaic system. Situated next to...

Admidst dire geopolitical news I've been working my tail off. It's been an unusually wet winter here; the chill and damp combined with...

US Vice President JD Vance's 19-minute address at the Munich Security Conference this past Friday sent shockwaves through European...

A few months ago I wrote about Germany's economic and political woes . There was (and is) much to be gloomy about, most of which I won't...

Here's a question to kick off 2025, addressed to the stink bug pictured above: did it really have to be the finger space of our storage...

I am struck, given the historical and political moment (in the US especially but also in the capitals of at least three major European...

When, back in August of 2022 Giorgia Meloni and her gratingly-named "Brothers of Italy" party were leading the polls in the Italian...

"Grief is the most mature emotion" a wise art professor of mine, himself an artist, once said. He'd have us read poems of love and loss,...

Fallen telephone cables notwithstanding, we managed to pull 590 kg of olives from around 200 of our trees today, bringing the total...

I could wait a day or three and pepper this post with links to any number of articles that will soon appear in some of my favorite...

Halloween harvest! As I wrote in an update to my recent Oak tree down post, this year we're splitting our harvest across two dates, nine...

Anyone remember Super Size Me ? In 2004, Morgan Spurlock, an independent documentary filmmaker went on an all-McDonald's diet for a month...

...along with a roadside telephone pole in our upper olive grove, and four massive wooden poles between the two snapped like toothpicks...

A little over three years ago I wrote my Zauber post , thanking Poggiosole's many German guests for their patronage and praising...

It's late to be getting around to naming our summer beneficiary for 2024; as much a matter of indecision as the odd grind this year has...

When I think of my mom's life journey: born in 1930, the first of three children of two unskilled laborers, growing up in war-ravaged...