I was in Lucca yesterday for my interview at the Questura for my yearly renewal of my Permesso di Soggiorno. They was a bit of a delay so I went for a walk through Lucca, along the wonderful Corso Garibaldi, which is lined with magnolia trees.
Usually they bloom in mid March, but this week those on the sunny side of the street are already flowering.
Many years ago I found this description of the flowering trees and it is too good not to repeat…again.
”If you will be there around the half of March you’ll fill the emotion of walking between the wings of magnolia trees, whose leafage full of flowers looks like a big rose-coloured fireworks even though…unnaturally static.”
Mother nature is ignoring the absolutely rotten events unfolding in Europe right now.