Alex Subrizi
Winter cuts
Snip snip snip. It’s pruning time. This year and next we’ll be cutting deeper than most, hoping to goad our plants into pushing back with...
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Alex Subrizi
Dec 13, 20212 min
Winter adds
“The first necessity of life is shelter… The first prayer is for protection.” — John Berger ”God is in the details.” — Ludwig Mies van...
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Alex Subrizi
Nov 15, 20211 min
Local Lambo
On a lighter note, I’d like to publicize, for the benefit of motorheads undecided about booking a stay with us in the coming weeks, the...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 31, 20211 min
Harvest 2021
Uncharacteristic weather (late frost in the spring of 2020 and scant rainfall since) cut our typical volume of 500-600 kilos of olives to...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 27, 20211 min
Gianni died this morning
peacefully, in his sleep. He was 89 and 10/12ths years old. My mom and he had been together over 60 years. Although Poggiosole is hers,...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 16, 20212 min
Annette
Last week we had a very special visitor. Annette, the daughter of my dad Gianni's first cousin Teresa, paid my folks a weekend visit from...
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Alex Subrizi
Sep 25, 20212 min
Firenze agrodolce
I've lost count of the times I've heard "oooh Florence, so beautiful, must be an amazing place to live" over the past many years when I...
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Alex Subrizi
Sep 22, 20212 min
Fence me in (part 1)
We’ve marked the end of 2021’s high season with a new fence around the inner perimeter of the property which includes the fienile, main...
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Alex Subrizi
Sep 12, 20212 min
Zauber (magic)
What is it about Germany? Any European over 70 will pause. As will any driving enthusiast. Or music lover. Inventive, disciplined,...
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Alex Subrizi
Sep 10, 20211 min
Promise kept
On August 15, one day after a magnitude 7.2 quake hit Haiti, I announced on our LinkedIn page that Poggiosole would donate 5% of August...
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Alex Subrizi
Sep 1, 20211 min
Figs (fresh)
At Poggiosole we grow grapes, pears, olives, apricots, plums, and figs. Our grapes and pears are quite tart and are best used to cook...
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Alex Subrizi
Aug 25, 20211 min
Antje (virtuoso)
Antje Weithaas, German virtuoso violinist, offered hikers lucky enough to be staying in or near San Martino di Castrozza (province of...
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Alex Subrizi
Aug 23, 20211 min
Shamsia
The attached quadriptych came to me from a family friend. The caption reads "Works by an Afghan artist named Shamsia Hassani. If we...
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Alex Subrizi
Aug 20, 20212 min
Purity
I'm moving house one bookshelf at a time more or less: the luxury of — for once — a slow move. This morning, as I brought an armful of...
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Alex Subrizi
Aug 19, 20211 min
Hot
Testing my grit. Might not last. What's the topic here? Broadly, an ex-designer semi-American expat hanging up the IT- and...
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