A note from Cannara

Since last Saturday, Lynda and I have been in Cannara, Umbria, as part of a week-long photography workshop.  A couple, professional photographers who live near us in Northwest Washington D.C. -- Frank von Riper and Judith Goodman -- are leading the group, which includes just six of us.  We're staying in a very nicely modernized old farm house, the "Fattoria del Gelso," which I'm guessing may have been the home for tenant farm families until sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.  Since Sunday, our van driver, a remarkable American woman whose driving is the least of her talents, has been taking us to picturesque -- literally -- towns nearby -- Bevagna, Montefalco, and today, Orvieto.  So far, our visits have incluced a few hours of taking pictures and nearly as much time around the table.  Both have been challenging.  I'll try to say more later about the workshop, but for the moment here are some examples of what I've been seeing.

Mount Subasio and the agricultural valley around Cannara

Fattoria del Gelso ("Mulberry Farmhouse") on the right at the end of the line of trees

 

A convertsation in Bevagna (near Cannara)

Antipasti in Montefalco

Lunch in Bevagna

A Montefalco wall