We have had lots of visitors for the past month -- four batches so far since the beginning of April and three more sets to go in the coming few weeks. If you have a house in Tuscany, you will never be lonely in the springtime. The sun has been lovely and golden, but interspersed with days of unseasonable cold and rain. This weather pattern has been perfectly coordinated with our visitors. Unfortunately, it has been a negative correlation. It is sunny and beautiful until people arrive and then they sit and shiver while the rain pours down outside (and occasionally inside) and Jonathan and I try to convince them that it really was quite warm just yesterday. They do not believe us.

Last night the choir from Capezzano Monte performed at one of the big marble sculpture studios in town, Franco Cervietti and C. Our friends Claudio and Valerio from the pub are members of the choir, which Nonno actually founded fifty years ago, so of course the whole pub crew (along with a couple of hundred other people) went to watch the performance. It was surreal and beautiful. One of the things that I love most about living here is that spaces, ordinary spaces, work spaces, even industrial spaces, are made beautiful on purpose and people recognize that and appreciate it and use it. I made a little video that I posted up above and here are a few pictures. 

P.S. Still no driver's license. The website where you have to register to get an appointment for the next step seems to have some sort of bug/error that makes it non-functional and the office where you can make an appointment in person was closed despite the sign on the door saying "Open". It's nice to have little things like this to help us fill our time.