Liberation Day!

Today is a day of celebration in Italy...a festa, in other words.  I had thought somewhat ambitiously of getting up for the walk around the town (the ring road at the bottom) this morning, but lack of sleep and my recently overcome virus forestalled me.  Instead, I was woken by the sound of trumpets and other brass instruments coming from underneath my pillow, or so it seemed to me from my new vantage point of the ceiling.

It turned out to be a division of the army which is specifically for martial music.  They wear uniforms, sing, and play band music, and march!  They have very exact height requirements for their candidates.  And they get to wear fun hats with large feathers.

There's also a craft display going on in Todi for the next week.  It closes May 1, unfortunately.  It's held in one of the palazzi in the piazza, and so I took a few pictures of the spaces...absolutely luscious!

Doesn't everyone need a prosciutto keeper in their home?
And don't you love the hand-carved model of a prosciutto?

Chain mail is such a normal craft item in the US...
it's labeled as weighing in at 40 kg.

This tapestry is huge; it covers the entire wall of the room.

This is an adjoining space

Love,

Alexandra