WOMAN'S DAY

8th of March 2012

Internation women's day!! To all of you girls and women a bunch of Mimosa flowers.
The picture was taken in Sicily 2006!

CANNOLO SICILIANO

Sicilian pastry is just good. Simply good.
This is THE SPECIALITY in Sicily.
Cannolo siciliano, filled with ricotta cheese.
You have to try it!

YOUNG SHEPHARDS

Sicily, Province of Trapani

Shephard Vito and his companion came across my view while driving through the beautiful landscape of the province Trapani on the west coast of Sicily.

"750 sheeps and 13 dogs we have" - tells me Vito (on the left) proudly when I ask him. We produce Ricotta (fresh cheese) and sheep cheese as well. Our farm is a few kilometers from here.

I can't stop thinking that I have hardly seen a shephard in Sweden, who does this job anymore?

Vito has his co-worker from north Africa, he hardly speaks any italian. A lot of young sicilian leave their country because they can't find job and to continue the family farm people have to get cheap working labour.

A few days later we see on tv the news of several boats that arrived in Lampedusa island full of emigrant from Tunisia. Where will all those young people go and work and find their happiness.

But today, in this little piece of Sicily everything isso magic, almost romantic, peacefull beside the 750 sheeps bleating.

CITRUS GALBINUS (yellow citrus)

Picture of the week - no. 4

Every year I travel to Sicily, my fathers country. On this wonderful island you can find a lot of citrus fruits from red oranges (Moro), lemons (limone),  mandarins. You will also find a bigger kind of citrus called CEDRO. Normally this fruit has a rougher skin and a sweet white meat. You can make a sallad only with this fruits, some olive oil, peppar and salt. Just delicious.

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ETNA

Here you can see Silvestri Craters at 1986 meters altitude.

There are not a lot of words to talk about it....coz. you have to be there, to feel it, to admire it, to be part of it.

Facts about the Etna Vulcan you can find everywhere in the internet. But to be able to stay there knowing that this vulcano is still active, is an amazing thought. You can fantisize about when will it erupt again, will I be lucky and see this natural show? It can happen. It is one of the most fantastic things I have ever seen a few years ago.

This year, the snow was still covering the soot, the rocks the lava. It was a sunday. Never go up on a sunday. I thought the half of Sicily was there, playing on the snow.

The parking is full of buses and sicilian on their sunday trip.

All those little colored points are in fact people.

SICILIAN LANDSCAPE

Spring time. View on the Etna vulcan.



Le piccole Gole dell'Alcantara.

The river Alcantara runs from the mountain Nebrodi down to the mediterranean sea.
It's a cold river with ice water.
This picture are taken close to the village Castiglione della Sicilia.

SPRINGTIME IN SICILY

Hi to everybody,

sorry for not having updated my blogg but I was away a week in Sicily, where Spring showed his best side. 7 days of 20-25 degrees, sunshine and a cozy wind. Wonderful food as usually.

I will put more pictures and little reportage text tomorrow, but I would like to start with a picture taken in the garden of our Agriturismo in San Leonardello. The trees full of kumquats, lemons and the first flower in the foreground. In the back you can see the snowcoated Etna with some clouds.

It was a magic morning!

I DURI

I duri siciliani.

My brother and sister from Sicily.

A portrait taken last summer.

PALERMO

There we go, during my week in Sicily I had the opportunity to spend a few hours in Palermo.

While driving with the car from one place to another we passed by this "office" where you can renew your license, order carplates and do anything that has to do with official papers for your car. This is indeed the most modern office I have ever seen.

CAR AGENCY IN PALERMO - 2009

I wanted as well to share with you this other picture. It's a fleamarket, closed for the day. I liked the light coming in at the end of the road and giving the sensation of old, used but mistic for some reason. As well you could place this street nearly anywhere in the world at least in a country where it's warm, due to the trees.

I would have loved to be there when open.

Motorcycle tour in Sicily

One week in Sicily, with sleepless nights due to the heat, lot of sleeping and resting, swimming in the sea, sunbathing and of course photography.

Thursday it was time for a reportagetrip to Castelbuono, just above Cefalù. We decided to go by bike to get the feeling of an easyrider on a hot summer day. It was even too hot to drive bike. The asfalt was hot, and the warm wind didn't made it easy for us to enjoy it fully.

But driving motorbike is a passion and a feeling of freedom!