The flowers are out for Painting holiday in Italy

I know I keep banging on about spring – but after the snow and mud, it is really the only show in town.  The fine weather means that we can get on with a few last jobs.  So Andrea is doing something with wood and Valentino is wrestling with stone, whilst I have been photographing blossom.  A strangely unappreciated job, but someone’s got to do it and it might as well be a gurl.

Next year we will be running a specialist flower drawing holiday at Painting Holidays Italy, ‘cos painting or drawing all these colours is just too good a chance to miss.

We’ve got lots of fruit trees at Painting Holidays in Italy, including apple, pear, plum, cherry, mulberry, apricot, quince and plenty of figs.  Not to mention walnuts and hazlenuts.  Which means that blossom time is a riot.

The Judas Tree – some say it got it’s name because it was the tree that Judas hung himself from and that every Easter it blushes with his shame, and each autumn bears seedcases just the right size for 30 pieces of silver.  Others say it’s a corruption of ‘Judea’ where the tree originated.  I say it could be both, and a good story is a good story.  We have a little one, (this one is in Camerino).  From little acorns…., or in this case,  pieces of silver.