Goose Yellow Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/newspaper 17 x 24" 41 x 63cm
Goose Green Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/newspaper 17 x 24" 41 x 63cm
We’d originally hoped to go to the beach but the weather has been less than ideal. It’s warm, barefoot temperatures, but daily thunderstorms plague Italy this summer; an unwanted dousing at the shore is no fun. So we thought we’d go to Sestola where they have an “automated music museum” inside the Castello.
On the way, we stopped at the Recycling Store in Montese. It wasn’t open at first, so we were able to vacuum out our car at the adjacent car wash. The cream puff got new tires, new radiator hoses, and new brakes this week, in hope of extending her life for another year and a half. After that I am thinking Hybrid.
While the automotive work took place, we had a rental car for a week, and then borrowed a friend’s car for the rest of the time. That car had as small setback, so we had been tethered to the house. It was a joy to cast off our cabin-fever, and we hit the road on Friday.
At Los Recicladores, Blair bought a dozen glass bottles (we have stopped buying water in plastic bottles and go to a water filtering center in Stimigliano), two futurist-style coffee cups, and a shirt. I got a skirt and a blouse. It’s a winding spaghetti road from here to Montese which I drove after getting carsick.
Rosy Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 9 x 14" 23 x 35cm
We went on to Sestola, the gateway to Monte Cimone. In the winter it is a ski resort, but in summer, stores and restaurants are open, offering scenic outdoor dining. We sat by the window and ate lemon prosciutto pasta and polenta with wild boar. There was a giant cloud around the top of the mountain, where the snow once was – there was a sense you could touch it. Our water in Rocca Malatina comes from here, and it always has the taste of snow. It is as if there is a teensy-weensy piece of dust the ice forms around – I can always taste that mountain-ness in the water. Like Switzerland.
Legs Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/newspaper 24 x 17" 63 x 41cm
We went to the Castello after lunch. Will I ever get used to the fact nothing is open before 3PM? In this case, the museum wasn’t open until Sunday, a piece of information forgotten on the website. We walked a bit around the castle before driving home along the Panaro river (a straighter road). I think about bridge paintings, but fish and fowl are more forgiving.
When I got home, I put our tap water through the Brita filter, filled two bottles and refrigerated them. Almost as good as wine.
Toes Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/newspaper 24 x 17" 63 x 41cm 90
