HERE ARE SOME REASONS WHY IT HAS BEEN        TWO WEEKS SINCE THE LAST POST!!!

                   WE TOOK A TRIP TO TREVI!
IT IS THE CLOSEST TOWN TO US...20 MINUTES
                              FROM SPELLO

 WE TOOK BACK ROADS AND ALL OF A SUDDEN...A TURN AND THIS AMAZING SIGHT!

LARRY LOVES OLD CHURCHES AND ALWAYS
STOPS TO ABSORB THE WORKMANSHIP, THE LIGHT THAT STREAMS IN THROUGH THE DOME CEILING...AND THE DEVOTION OF THOSE WHOSE BELIEF PRODUCED SUCH BEAUTY!!!

TREVI HAS THE WORLD'S!!!! OLDEST WALL PUMP ORGAN...IT IS SAID TO HAVE THE PUREST SOUND...AND IT HAS BEEN LOVINGLY RESTORED!!!  ZOOM IN AND SEE!!!

                        NEXT TRIP OFF TO
                             COLLEPINO! 

YOU CANNOT SEE IF FROM SPELLO EVEN THOUGH IT IS ONLY 10 MINUTES AWAY, AS IT IS HIGH UP AND AROUND THE MOUNTAIN...

THIS IS THE SURPRISE WE SAW...SO LOVELY!!!

ALWAYS THE MADONNA
GREETS YOU WHEREVER
YOU GO IN ITALY... 

 THE RAINS ARE EASING UP AND THE
TREES ARE BLOOMING!!!






                       SEE HOW MUCH SMALLER THE
SREETS ARE! MAKES SPELLO LOOK LIKE CHICAGO!!!

 COLLEPINO HAS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS
RESTAURANTS IN THE AREA---WE NEVER
FOUND IT---BUT WILL NEXT TRIP FOR SURE!

                              OFF TO TODI
                 ANOTHER HILL TOP VILLAGE!
 ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF FROM SPELLO

 THE GREAT LORENZO TAKES US TO YET  ANOTHER ADVENTURE! WITHOUT A SCRIPT...

 ZOOM IN AND YOU WILL SEE TODI ON TOP!!!

                  THE VIEWS FROM THE TOP

              LORENZO THE GREAT CHAUFFEUR      

  TODI'S CENTRAL PIAZZA WITH THE DUOMO

              UNO CAFE LATTE PER FAVORE

IN UMBRIA THE POPPIES ARE RED NOT LIKE CALIFORNIA ORANGE...WE WALKED IN TODI'S GARDENS AND THE COOL BREEZE IN THE SILENCE WAS A MEDITATION IN ITSELF...

                
WE ARE GOING TO ROME FOR THREE DAYS
AS I HAVE BEEN INVITED TO SEE THE MOTHERHOUSE...MAIN HEADQUARTERS...OF THE RELIGIOUS OF THE SACRED HEART AND THE ARCHIVES WHICH SR.MARGARET PHELAN HAS RUN FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS!! SHE AND I WERE IN THE NOVITIATE TOGETHER AND I WILL BE SEEING HER EXACTLY 49 YEARS FROM THE DAY I ENTERED IN 1964....WHAT AN ADVENTURE!!!!!