December 31, 2011
Hi everyone,
Buon Anno! Auguri! Best wishes for a blissful year ahead.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
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December 8, 2011 Christmas season starts here with a bang! Literally. Firecrackers boomed loud enough to make your heart disintegrate and drums beat wildly as the Immaculate Virgin Mary sallied forth from churches all over Sicily today (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) and took her annual spin around town. Mary came out after dark in my village, Ragusa Ibla, so I drove to Scicli where she made an appearance earlier in the day while it was still light enough to photograph. The priest sang Ave Maria into his mike while onlookers made the sign of the cross and wiped tears from their eyes. Notes flew from tubas and trombones.
If you’re thinking of making a trip to Sicily sometime in the future, consider the Christmas season. The weather’s pretty nice and the traditions are rich. There’s spirituality in the air rather than commercialism. Check out Sicilia&Folklore for some wonderful photos of Sicilian pageants, and for a great list–in Italian–of upcoming celebrations (prossimi eventi on the right-hand side of the blog). *** August 14, 2011
Wouldn’t you love to own this baby? “I’ve been trying to persuade him for a long time,” says the man in green, “but he won’t sell.” We’re in the main piazza of a hill town called Vizzini. “How old?” I ask the owner. “1969.” “Forty-two years old,” says the man in green, wistfully. “But he won’t sell her.” “You have to be a mechanic like me,” says the owner, “to have a car like this.” “He won’t sell her to me,” the man repeats. “I keep offering more and more money.” “I wouldn’t sell her for all the money in the world.” The mechanic runs his hand over her curves and grins.
*** August 9, 2011 Water runs again in our village fountains. How many years were they dry? I’m not sure, actually, but this year the village coughed up around 250,000 euro to make them gush again. These antiques now have a modern twist. See for yourself.
 Restoring Ibla's Fountains A large, wide basin at the foot of Ragusa Ibla where donkeys drank and women did the laundry is also under reconstruction. Ragusa Ibla is lucky to have money for things like this, thanks to its status as a World Heritage Site. In the poor village of Cassaro about an hour away, a wall mural has replaced the old village fountain. It sort of breaks my heart.  Casaro, Sicily *** July 25, 2011
Don’t miss the fish and veggie market next time you’re in Siracusa. It’s every morning, starting at 5am. Great entertainment!
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