Day 5. "The moons the same old moon , the flowers the same old flowers" True words as we look out at night over a moonlight Lake Garda. It's the same moon I would look at back home if I were there. The flowers come later but they too are the same old flowers. The season is just a tad earlier here in Italy. Vines fill the fields with a promise of wine later in the year. Thistles grow on the roadsides. Much earlier than back home. They are more a late summer flower blessing our hedgerows. . There are even poppies out and they look a welcome red in the fields. The peas in gardens are four foot high and full of white flowers. I would not even have planted any out yet in my
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