Easter flowers, wisteria and wildflowers
In a Sicilian spring flowers adorn the island. And this spring they were lovely - on Easter’s mournful Good Friday in Polizzi Generosa in April, wandering the streets of Polizzi, driving the mountain roads of the Madonie, and travelling the interior roads and along the Ionian Sea.
Polizzi Generosa -an unknown pink beauty
Drops of white wisteria, Casa Cuseni, Taormina, near the Ionian Sea
Irises along a backstreet, Polizzi Generosa
Wild sweet peas in the midst of spontaneous roadside flowers near Locati
Tangled roadside sweet peas, sulla, yellow daisies near Locati
Roses (and other lovely pink flowers) in the terrace garden, The Sicilian House, Polizzi Generosa
Pinks, reds, yellows, purples and white
Wildflowers, pots of pinks and reds along village streets and balconies and overgrown backstreet gardens, long full drops of purple wisteria along the wall of a country house in the Madonie Mountains, plus more wisteria drops near the Ionian Sea in the rambling garden at Casa Cuseni.
Heaps of fields, green from winter rains dotted with perfect flowers – purple velvet wild sweet peas, tall yellow ferula and poppies. And the deep, deep pink red of sulla, the flower of a legume used for cattle feed in the interior.
Wildflowers, castle ruins Polizzi Generosa
Street balcony, Polizzi Generosa - geraniums along the top rail
Casa Cuseni, Taormina -irises, and the last of the east coast citrus
Sulla, near Castellana Sicula in the Madonie
Wisteria drops along the Scillato Road in the Madonie
The Grieving Madonna, lillies and nasturtiums by the sea
Golden oranges and yellows of the sweet nasturtium against lava rock at Santa Maria della Scala, tucked down by the Ionian Sea. And white lilies, at the base of Polizzi’s grief stricken and ethereal Madonna on Good Friday.
Good Friday, Polizzi Generosa- lillies fill vases at feet of the The Madonna
Nasturtiums rambling by the Ionian Sea at Santa Maria della Scala
Salve
Suzanne