A Lasagna in Tofuland…the trips and falls of an Italian Jersey Girl in LA











{April 24, 2010}   le colline viola

Since spring came, this is what i see on my drive into Pacific Palisades to teach voice lessons to my 11 year old student…..

It’s purple heather, or wild mountain thyme, or something of that sort,

but it creates purple lawns and is just so darn pretty i nearly cacy every

time i see it against the hyper blue sky. I can’t help

sometimes but be reminded of italy by the landscape out here; the

rolling hills and cyprus trees

Lala cypruscyprus trees in my mom's town of Colonella in Abruzzi

are undeniably Italien’. Even poppys, which

burst all over the fields in

Italy, creep out in Cali…

poppy field in Italy
poppys in a field near my mom’s childhood home in colonella
i took this lone poppy photo on my dad’s family’s old farmland in Altamura, Bari
pretty poppy field in Cali
cali poppys

It’s making me ache for
the mother land somethin’
fierce. But the purple
heather i’ve been spotting
in the
palisades, the wild
mountain thyme…it’s oh so perty

and

so…  

 

western America. There’s

an

old English song about it

(which i suppose means it’s a
very English countryside thing
as well…was i  talking about Italy
at some point?)  err..

Anyway, here it’s sung by Judy

Collins & Pete Seeger,

and if i were a true lala i’d say i thought it

was “rad”, but i’ll just say it rocks. Her

voice is so

lilty-sixties and instantly

transports me to summer day in

California,

fifty years ago…or perhaps an afternoon walk in The Cotswalds…you decide.
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=-Kbr6tUhDRI

 

whether you’re in England, Italy,
Cali, or Jersey…

Happy almost almost
summer.
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