The colours of windows in Bologna are yellow and orange, like the dying embers of a fire, and sage green, like sun-baked fields of Summer, the plaster is dry-cracked and weather-damaged and the flower-pots are faded terracotta and thirsty…
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Tagged Bologna Streets, Bologna Widows, Doors and Windows, Italy Windows, Window Boxes, Windows
“And thank God for home-sweet things, a green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame upon my window sill.” – Martha Haskell Clark
Two pictures taken in the village of Bárcena Mayor in Cantabria in the far north of Spain. In Green Spain in the rain and the mist the geraniums are not quite so extravagant as in sun-burnt south, they do not bloom so freely but they have a rustic elegance nevertheless!
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Tagged Bárcena Mayor, Cantabria, Culture, Life, Spain Doors, Spain Windows, Window Boxes
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