Tag: cielo
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The Blue and White
No, this isn’t snow! It’s a close-up of the white cliffs of southern Sicily’s Scala dei Turchi, or Stairs of the Turks. The cliffs are made of a hard-mud material that is a combination of calcium carbonate and lime mixed with other types of clay and silt, called marl or marlstone. A popular swimming spot,…
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Smoke that Took My Breath Away
During our recent Experience Sicily tour, it rained for four days (an abnormal weather pattern for September). Then, we woke up to this! Etna smoking into a clear blue sky. It still takes my breath away, just thinking about the moment I pushed open my shudders. Wow, I felt like a kid on her birthday!…
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Silver Sky in Trapani
Trapani’s salt flats at dusk with a full moon overhead.
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Earth, Glorious Earth
Happy glorious Earth Day! (Sea view from Scopello, Sicily)
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Dusk in Trapani, Sicily
Trapani’s salt flats at dusk.
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Go, Tell It On the Mountain
Approaching Sutera.
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A Powerful Impression
At the Temple of Heracles in Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples, you’ll find eight reconstructed Doric-style columns from the massive 6th century BC structure. Like the Greek god for which it’s named, the sacred edifice leaves a powerful impression.
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Smoking in the Distance
Panorama with Mount Etna in the far distance.
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Salt Grinder
This is the Maria Stella windmill from the Trapani salt pans. It is one of many windmills whose movement worked a mechanism that ground salt that had been collected from the flats when the sea water held in the flats evaporated. In the past, when this windmill was in use, its large wooded blades were…