Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Sunflowers (i.e. Tuscany, i.e. Lucca #3)

There are fields of sunflowers.
When I think Tuscany, I think of good wine, cyprus trees, rolling hills with fields on them (for real), corn, wheat, hay, more trees. I had forgotten about the sunflowers. But then, as our train from Rome to Siena, and later the train from Siena to Florence, was whisking us through Tuscany, we kept riding by fields of sunflowers and it was beautiful.
So, naturally, my mission in Siena - other than eating at an amazing restaurant - was to find a postcard of sunflowers because there was no way that my camera could take the perfect shot through a dirty train window. And I found this postcard almost as soon as I decided that it was worth a €0.50 postcard rather than the cheapest €0.30 that was my other choice; there were also some €1 postcards but they looked like the €0.30 postcards, but were closer to a touristy area and were, therefore, a rip off.
Oh, and no one is getting this postcard because it is for me. It is mine, all mine. Maybe I'll show you when I get home.

No comments: