Trulli della Liber

09/12/2025

Happy Holidays!!!

31/12/2023

The last sunrise of 2023

06/05/2023

A selection of the wildflowers from our land before it is mowed tomorrow to meet the May 15 regulation. I wish we could wait for everything to go to seed but the law waits for no flower. It has been a chilly and wet Spring so all the growth is a few weeks behind schedule. By next year we will have our own trattorino and mowing blade and will be able to better control sectional mowing.

09/01/2023

Magic moment

20/12/2022

14/08/2022

A few days after we moved into Trulli della Liber I looked into the cistern and saw what I thought was a hose pipe. I immediately panicked thinking I was looking at the pump line at bottom of the cistern which would mean we were almost out of water.
Closer inspection revealed the ”pipe” was in fact the belly of a snake. We used a rake to pull the snake out of the cistern and discovered it was still alive, albeit extremely chilled and waterlogged. After warming in the sun for a few minutes, the snake slithered off.
Today we were visited by this beautiful creature. It is about the same size as the one we rescued, and as such I like to think our cistern visitor has survived and established a territory nearby.

(And yes, we have taken measures to better “snake proof” our cistern)

14/08/2022

Our first Wisteria bloom.
When we first moved into Trulli della Liber, a friend gave me a small Wisteria plant that had been struggling in her yard. It spent a week in a garbage bag until I found the time, and a place, to plant it.
The long term goal is to train it to trellis over the bedroom window of the trulli.

11/08/2022

The wild Fennel Flower liqueur has been bottled. In 30 days I will re-filter it and it will be ready to drink!