Hello hivers, an happy Thursday to you all! Another rainy day here and the floor of my backyard is full of red leaves fallen down from the brunches of my plum tree. To be honest, I love this sort of red carpet outside of my door, it's a touch of color on a grey day. 😊

An happy Wednesday to you all! It's raining again here in my area (Tuscany, in Italy) and all the trees around are now in the shades of red, brown and yellow colors. I love the colors we can see in this season, they give me a sort of quiet and relaxed mood, it's like to be in a pause from the hot temperature of the Summer and the cold temperature of the Winter, while the nature start to rest. ❤️ This morning there was a blackbird in my backyard, at a certain moment it seemed he was watching me with his yellow eye and I thought it could be the right time to paint a new blackbird in my own illustrative style and so I did it| You can see the final result of this new blackbird portrait in the following pics:

Hello hivers, an happy Tuesday to you all! Today the Sun is shining on the sky and it's warm enough to enjoy the air in my backyard. The birds are singing all around, they seems to be very happy for the good weather and this morning a "special guest" came into my kitchen from the open window: a bumblebee! I like the bumblebee and not just because they are useful insects, but also because they looks big-bellies bees and they are furry. They use to ignore humans and the male ones are not aggressive (the female ones are not so friendly), so when I watched the one this morning I was really calm. It was a funny moment, because that bumblebee (here in Italy we call it "bombo") was flowing in front of my face for some minutes before to come back in my backyard. 😊

Hello hivers, and happy Monday to you all! I hope you spent a nice, relaxed weekend. Yesterday here the rain was in pause for a couple of hours in the afternoon and so me and my hubby walked along the river close to our home to clean our minds and to move our "old bones". Maybe you remember, during the past months, I took a lot of pics of some little ducks who are growing fast along that river. Me and Paolo love to watch them every time we can, we love especially to observe the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and since some days those little ones became beautiful adults. It was easy to understand they became adult, because the head of the male ones became to be dark green (the female ones are simply brown). When they were young they use to stay all together, but after they became adults, they started to spend the most part of the time with thei "better half" and so new couples of them now are swimming on the river. I had my camera with me and so I took some pics of them to share with you:

Hello hivers, an happy Sunday to you all! yesterday was a sunny day of October and so, after the lunch, I went to search porcini mushrooms in the forest with my mom and my hubby @paolobeneforti . It seems to be the end of the porcini time in my area and we found just few one (few one, but very good ones 😊 ), but to walk for some hours under the trees always makes me feel good and relaxed, so it was a nice time there!

Hello hivers, I wish you a wonderful Saturday! After some rainy day, today the Sun is shining on the sky and I'm really happy to have a good weather because later I'll go to the forest close to my city to search edible mushroom with my hubby @paolobeneforti and my mom! 😊 While I'm waiting to go out (you know I love so much to search mushrooms!), I thought to use another one of the tiny canvas I bought days ago for a tiny portrait of the series I call "Thinking about the sea" and you can see the final result of the piece in the following pics: