When I left my new Italian boyfriend in Spring of 2010 with a promise to reunite in the summer, I had no idea that the Italian Alps could transform so spectacularly in such a short span of time. I left in April with memories of the vast mountainous range looking like this:
And when we reunited 2.5 months later in July...it looked like this:
A perfect environment for love to blossom, wouldn't you say? It was. I spent the entire summer with my new love working in the garden, tending to the animals, the bees, the trees and eating a lot of fresh organic food. I even learned how to milk a cow and drive a tractor.
I wasn't snowboarding, but I found a new appreciation for the mountains, discovering a world that I never new existed. So much green! So many flowers! Was I just in love? Or was everything really so amazingly beautiful?
