..the beginning of our holiday had started…

so without too much explanation, the photos in the next few posts are basically inspirations from the trip…

I tried to soak up the changing season in Salò; the light, the colours, the smells….

The figs were ripe and their smell followed us everywhere…

A lot of the fruits hadn’t yet ripened; olives, persimmon, pomegranite, but it was so brilliant to be able to see them growing.

There was a walk you could take around the hotel which provided me with most of my arrangement ‘produce’, and I eventually settled on a wooden trug for my surface which I found on a beautiful old table near the swimming pool.

It gave great texture and, because of its curves, also a great light.

I experimented with the outdoor table as well, but as it was highly varnished I couldn’t quite get the feeling I wanted from it…

Also the trug allowed me to feel freer…it was outside, and I could move it around to quiet places so that people couldn’t see me ( I’d felt a bit self conscious when a chamber maid discovered me arranging on the table in the corridor… )