When I posted about visiting the lentil fields at Castelluccio the other day I found it really hard to pick out the images that summed up just how beautiful the experience was. After using a slide show for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day I thought it would be nice to share all the photos I took of the lentil fields and road verge wild flowers. I’ve put a few names for the wild flowers I’ve identified but haven’t completed all the names. If you recognise something please let me know.
Grab a coffee, tea or long cool drink and join me in Castelluccio by clicking on the image below.
I am at my desk, rather reluctantly slogging through a dreary report . It is a hot morning and I have the blinds closed. What a refreshement then to look at your fabulous photos. Grazie mille.
I am glad to be able to share them.
Beautiful pictures, I also went back to reading that other post that I missed. CasteLLuCCio 😉 must be a magical place to visit, particularly at this time of the year. I’m sure you also had some very good food around there, haven’t you? Did you buy some lentils? I think they have the I.G.P. mark in there, haven’t they? Those lentils must taste beautiful, especially if you close your eyes and think of the little piece of paradise where they grow!
Thanks for the spelling correction! Yes we bought some lentils but it is something I don’t cook very well – I don’t know why as usually I can cook almost anything.
Superb photographs! A beautiful place and a botanists paradise. I bet there are lots of different kinds of bees there too :). It looks a totally flat plain surrounded by mountains, is it a long extinct volcano?
there were bees but because it is so high maybe not as many different kinds as you might imagine. I’m not sure if it was a volcano but all around this part of Italy there are lakes that were once volcanos. Just checked and it was once a glacier, but it does sometimes become a lake if the escape holes for water block.
Gorgeous. Looking at the photos whilst eating a lentil salad. 🙂 Would love to see that part of Italy and all those wild flowers for myself.
You should come, it is a very unspoilt part of Italy. Great food in Norcia which is the best place to actually stay. There are maps with trails with all levels of walking.
I’d love to but no holiday for us this year. Work is hectic and makes it difficult to fit anything in at the moment. Maybe next year. 🙂
I hope you can come next year, you can come to visit me too!
Such a wonderful sight. It sets my heart right for the day. Thanks.
I’m happy to be able to share the experience.
Quante magnifiche foto.
La piana di Castelluccio è, a mio parere, un posto unico e meraviglioso.
assolutamente da non perdere.
Certamente giugno e luglio sono i mesi migliori per vedere i campi fioriti.
Bel reportage.
Ciao
Sono contenta che ti sei piaciute. Si è un posto unico. Quest’anno i fiori erano almeno due o tre settimane in ritardo.
Oh, just gorgeous, what a beautiful dream! I love the poppies with the hills in the distance. Someone buy me a ticket to Rome!
The photo actually in the post looks like a painting, gorgeous. Your slide show was great. It’s so scenic where you live.
Castelluccio is about three hours drive from where I live, and yes, Italy is a really beautiful country.
Simply breathtaking Christina! The elder looks like it’s in a lake with all those cornflowers around it. Thanks for sharing your gorgeous photos with us!
My pleasure, Cathy
Wonderful!
Your slide shows are a wonderful way to share something that can only be appreciated by looking at it from many angles.
Such wonderful photos – just confirming my theory that Italy is the most beautiful country in the world!
You may well be correct!
The first one here was amazing and then to see the others…fabulous.
For some reason the slideshow isn’t working for me out here in France but your first photo on the post is just beautiful, like a painting!:)
Hope you get to see the slide show when you get home. I think it maybe doesn’t work on an iPad?
That is so beautiful it feels like a watercolor painting.
Jen
Did you see the slide showmornjust the one image?
Lovely Christina,those fieldscapes looked like paintings .
Sorry I’m late accepting this, it was placed in the spam, and I was lucky to see it. The pictures are like painting, I’m thinking of enlarging some for the wall
Breathtaking! I kept thinking what a refreshment to the soul this place is. Thanks so much for taking time to put the slide show together.
I’m pleased you enjoyed it. It was an uplifting place to be, especially on a hot weekend