Bursting with Color

Leading into Fall 2024, a look back at Fall 2022.

Crisp blues, stark whites, creamy pastels…just because summer’s come to an end doesn’t mean we can’t bring its feeling into fall.

Or at least, that’s what I’ve been telling myself this week.

Maybe it’s because this summer was so unlike any other. Michael had to have foot surgery and was unable to walk on it at all for 7 weeks (he just started driving again). That and a large project I’m so ready to share with you have kept me indoors more than usual.

But I did get to go through my camera roll and edit—and delete—old photos, and the theme of “crisp blues, start whites, and creamy pastels” is no more evident than in these photos from our trip to Italy in 2022. I hope these give you inspiration as they’re practically bursting with color. I know for me, they immediately make me take a deep breath, wishing I was smelling the ocean breeze of Cinque Terre or the smell of fresh baked bread in Tuscany.

Cinque Terre’s coastline is full of mountains, cliffs, and lovely vineyards.

One of the picturesque towns of Cinque Terre.

I need a striped boat cover. How chic!

Back to Tuscany…to Florence, the city of the Old Masters.

Inside the Uffizi…ornate details that take your breath away. Remember, a person did that!

Tuscany’s famous terracotta.

This is approximately where my phone tumbled in the ocean, an expensive blessing as I no longer had any distractions.

Golden Hour in Florence…the view from our hotel window. In a word, “lovely.”

Back to another town in Cinque Terre.

Most of my photos in Milan are lost to the sea. But this—and the following—I captured on the camera.

I was most proud of this photo - taken on the Arno River in Florence. You could close your eyes and almost picture being in the midst of the Renaissance.

And that’s all for now. I hope to get back in a writing cadence soon.

Signing off yours,

Syd