Sicilia is green in the winter months giving way to the parched golden browns of the summer sun. This image was made in Mulinello in Enna Province. The boat is in the eastern coastal town of Acitrezza which was the actual setting of many of the great Sicilian novelist Giovanni Verga's novels. My favorite and a Sicilian treasure is, "The House by the Medlar Tree" ( I Malavoglia). It ( the boat) makes me think so much of the actual vessel the Provvidenza which plays a central role in this historic novel.

The pizzeria was taken in Castelmola which is truly an artists paradise sitting high above Taormina.