Alex Subrizi
Black-out (revisited)
In contrast to last year, our lights (and water pumps) stayed on all through this past summer. A still happier contrast is that between...
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Alex Subrizi
- Nov 29
- 1 min
Lovepop
Tuscan soil is loaded with stones (that's one reason most older houses here are made of them) and recent digging in our outer grove...
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Alex Subrizi
- Nov 24
- 2 min
Thanksgiving (plus 24)
This Thanksgiving weekend we're planting two dozen olive saplings in our outer grove. Some fill random gaps in rows of mature trees....
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Alex Subrizi
- Oct 29
- 3 min
Harvest 2023
Over the course of two days, ending this evening as dusk turned to dark, we pulled 1049 kilos of gorgeous Frantoio, Leccino, Leccione and...
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Alex Subrizi
- Oct 20
- 2 min
Ripe under rain
It's been pouring, in stretches, three days on. We were promised this; we know better than to bank on such predictions. But when...
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Alex Subrizi
- Oct 17
- 3 min
Our lower grove
As noted in an earlier post, we're in the process of breathing new life into portions of our olive grove that have been sitting neglected...
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Alex Subrizi
- Oct 16
- 5 min
Gaza
It feels superfluous, even inappropriate, to comment on recent events in and near Gaza. But as a man whose parents were still children as...
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Alex Subrizi
- Oct 5
- 5 min
Buzzkill
Paragraph 5 of our Health and Safety handout reads "Wasps and hornets may pay you a visit during your stay...We try to clear any nests we...
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Alex Subrizi
- Sep 22
- 2 min
Fence me in (part 2)
At long last, Poggiosole's new front gate is finished, and looks posh. With a main body of COR-TEN steel supporting 19 vertical slats of...
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Alex Subrizi
- Sep 22
- 2 min
Niue
The other morning I was reading the "Espresso" (daily digest) version of The Economist when the following caught my eye: Island Nation of...
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Alex Subrizi
- Sep 22
- 4 min
Numbers upon numbers upon love
One might suppose that higher prices no longer shock, but at the start of this year I sensed deep dismay from a former guest who had...
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Alex Subrizi
- Aug 23
- 3 min
Summer silence
I know, I've been quiet. I could say it's been the heat (and it is very hot here this week) but actually much of the summer has been...
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Alex Subrizi
- May 23
- 4 min
Weird weather
As most of the news-watching world knows by now, the US is about to default on its debts and it's been a very wet spring in northern...
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Alex Subrizi
- Mar 21
- 1 min
Spring
Our stone fruit trees are in bloom (above a detail of the Prunus persica just outside Le Rose's front door), our olive grove is crowded...
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Alex Subrizi
- Jan 23
- 3 min
Smoke, no mirrors (or "mixed reality")
Aside from the five meter-wide strip of asphalt of the Strada Romita, this was the view from Poggiosole's still unfinished front gate...
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Alex Subrizi
- Jan 5
- 4 min
Pool refresh
A rebuild of our swimming pool has been underway since we closed for our harvest in October. What's that saying about the road to hell...
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Alex Subrizi
- Oct 27, 2022
- 5 min
Remembering Gianni
My father was a serious person, una persona seria. That much was clear to all who met him, on both sides of the pond. Some went as far as...
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Alex Subrizi
- Oct 23, 2022
- 2 min
Harvest 2022
Left to right in the above photo are my sons Elio (20), Sam (4), and Max (6) along with yours truly (soon 59). Behind us is most of...
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Alex Subrizi
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
A longed-for subtraction... and reunion
For some years, well before I took over the day-to-day management of Poggiosole in 2021, the thick aerial telephone line crossing our...
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