Saturday morning, Jim, Ilene, and I headed to Massarosa, a small town about 30 minutes from Lucca. Once a year the farms of Massarosa open up to visitors. We visited a farm growing lotus flowers, one for saffron (but the flowers were not blooming currently), and one for lavender. Yes, these are farms for flowers!
Lotuses at “I Campi di Ninfa”
Next stop – a lavender field
And other beautiful flowers too!
Sunflowers – no, then yes!
We had a wonderful visit to Massarosa but were disappointed that the sunflower fields were not in bloom. So we headed back to Lucca on the Autostrada. Ilene saw two fields of bright yellow sunflowers and I jokily asked Jim if we could go find them. He said yes and we were off on another adventure… trying to find fields of sunflowers that we had seen 10 minutes ago on the Autostrada. Ilene and I were overjoyed to be completed surrounded by sunflowers – more than either of us had ever seen. Thank you Jim for being so very patient on our pursuit of all of these flowers. Ti amo!
Thanks to Ilene for the great “people” pictures in this post and for going with us on this adventure. You can read more about Ilene and Gary, her husband, on their blog called “Our Italian Journey“.
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Beautiful! God’s present to us!
And such a wonderful present!
It was a fantastic day of beauty and sharing it with you two… priceless. Special thanks to Jim for his patience and kindness in going out of the way to return for the sunflowers. You guys are the best!!
Thanks Ilene!
So love flowers! The composition of your photos are very artistic.
Thanks Kelly!