CONFETTI TO SPAGHETTI

ciao!!


a little of this and that:

this is picture of teens in town weekend before CARNIVAL - 

INFANTS on up dress in costume all weekend long the two weekends before CARNIVAL - just like halloween - they love it - even the ones in baby buggies



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cute story - i go to nearby plaza on sunday late afternoons to read as sit on edge of big planters as the sun goes down - just nice way to end the week

many people meet there or stop for a time to let children run and run and run 

(have not mentioned that florence LOVES CONFETTI - sold in many types of stores - ESPECIALLY around carnival time 
but see on streets every day for birthdays, weddings, whatever 
Florence LOVES CONFETTI)

suddenly, when his parents have their back turned, a 4-year-old boy tosses
TWO-HANDSFUL OF CONFETTI at me
my head, coat, down my coat, sweater and shirt, three pockets of purse, and my bag of grapes IS COVERED IN CONFETTI

i just laugh out loud - but parents are appalled at what son has done in his innocent, gleeful way - and make him come with bowed head to say sorry



SO when i was in PLAZA REPUBBLICA the next day and saw a girl with a fresh bag of confetti i asked her mom if i could take her picture to share with you

the little girl then became shy and would only drop it from the hand held at her side onto the stone pavement

SO, a mother after my own heart, she decides to demonstrate for her first-grade-daughter INDIA how to do it - too funny

of course, India is saying to herself, I know what to do, I am just not doing it . . .

INDIA then decides she will cooperate with the lady who wants to take her picture (me) BY THROWING ALL HER CONFETTI ONTO THAT LADY - handful by handful  
















HAPPY CARNIVAL PAST

(it was the day before Ash Wednesday and all schools allowed children to come to school in costume - India included)



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(sorry - i made a movie of this and i need to work with it more - movie would  keep running after i transferred it from desktop to here )

HOWEVER, the happening i sat and listened to for over an hour was this girl WHO SANG HEAVENLY OPERA and her accompanist and boyfriend on accordion - 
she never stopped the whole time i listened - 
HER VOICE WAS BEAUTIFUL and soared to the heavens -
plus she was so sweet
they got many many donations - everyone loved them !!!!!!!

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Last Saturday was another holiday celebrated more that mothers' day in italy -
IT IS WOMEN'S DAY and bright yellow MIMOSA is the traditional flower given from girl to girl or boy to girl or man to wife, mother, sister, etc.

when we met DONATELLA for lunch
last week she gave Lisa and myself each a spring bouquet with MIMOSA 


DONATELLA and husband are managers of villa where ANGIE AND DOUG, who were here a year from new jersey (although now spending a year in maine and loving that too), lived last spring and summer and fall until november
she misses them a lot so comes into town to be with their good friends, lisa and myself who had visited all of them at the villa many times

DONATELLA IS ON THE RIGHT - GIOVANNI who owns the restaurant where we ate is in the middle  - 
LISA on the left
DONATELLA loves practicing her english - also speaks french and a bit of german - i should feel guilty.....
had a great visit and lunch - SPAGHETTI
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that's all for now

TI VOGLIO BENE -     

(title of carol faenzi's new book - but my wish to you) 

I WANT YOU WELL!!!

nancy lou