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19 March 2009

Love Thursday: Direct from a Southern Italian Beach

Today’s love-filled photos come directly from the a southern Italian beach town, the home of Charlie, who writes the blog Figs and Lemons and sells amazing soap products at Saponissimo.

Our dear Charlie snapped these gorgeous photos, and sent them to me with this lovely message:

I found this stone on the beach and thought of you!!!

Whee! Love *is* all around!

Anyone else dreaming of a vacation on an Italian beach now?

Happy Love Thursday everyone!

And Happy Italian Father’s Day Dad!

21 beans of wisdom »

21 beans of wisdom to “Love Thursday: Direct from a Southern Italian Beach”

Gil on 19 Mar 2009 at 10:04 am #

Happy Saint Joseph’s Day and Happy Love Thursday to you! Please eat a nice big Zeppole for your poor readers.

That I can do, Gil
joanne at frutto della passione on 19 Mar 2009 at 11:49 am #

I love sea glass and I always collect white stones from the seaside and bring them home. I have a lovely blue glass bowl that I keep them in.

joanne at frutto della passione’s last blog post..Penne rigate alla Vodka – Penne in Vodka sauce

I love sea glass too…I don’t find nearly enough….
vchelle on 19 Mar 2009 at 12:26 pm #

I think Spring brings love in the air period… I agree, love is all around and I’m sure I could find some on an Italian beach!

I agree, there’s definitely something about Spring
carol on 19 Mar 2009 at 12:34 pm #

“Anyone else dreaming of a vacation on an Italian beach now?”

…….DUH!!!!!!!

Hah
nyc/caribbean ragazza on 19 Mar 2009 at 12:56 pm #

Yes I wish I was on vacation on an Italian beach.

Happy Love Thursday.

nyc/caribbean ragazza’s last blog post..President Obama’s Picks for March Madness

Come on down!
charlie on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:15 pm #

Always being contrary to eveybody else, I’m dreaming of the English countryside! Hopefully I’m going tomorrow!

charlie’s last blog post..

Well yes, too much southern Italian beach sometimes mean not enough home….
Lisa on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:21 pm #

I can not wait to be in Italy, hopefully this summer! We have been teased with sporadic warmer days here on the East Coast and those days really make me long for the sand and surf of Puglia (or any beach in Italy for that matter)!

Buona Festa di San Giuseppe!

Lisa’s last blog post..Happy Love Thursday!

Don’t worry–we’ve been teased here as well. They say it’s supposed to snow tonight/early tomorrow morning in the mountains of Calabria!
Katie in MA on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:44 pm #

I love when little signs enter our worlds, just like yours, and says….Smile, silly – you are loved!

Happy Love Thursday!

Katie in MA’s last blog post..The love that remains the same.

What a beautiful sentiment, Katie; thanks for coming by and sharing
Se'Lah on 19 Mar 2009 at 2:15 pm #

Awwww. I love finding love in unexpected, simple places.

Se’Lah’s last blog post..Feel the love…

Me too Thanks for coming by!
awedree on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:19 pm #

I am dreaming away! Sounds very inviting! Happy luv giovedi

BTW, I didn’t know Father’s Day is today in Italy…interesting

I didn’t realize that either until I moved here
lucy on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:21 pm #

I’m always dreaming of a vacation on any beach! Love to all on this gorgeous Thursday!

lucy’s last blog post..

Right back at you Lucy
Kim B. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:34 pm #

Yes, I’d love to be on an Italian beach. Next week we’ll be in Torino to visit Marco’s family. What I want to know is why we’ve never been to his family’s vacation condo in Diamante nor to his family domain (twin-sister spinster aunt still living in the house where she and his mother grew up) in Sicily!!!

So close but yet so far!

Happy Love Thursday.

Oh you definitely need to come down here! Perhaps for the peperoncino festival in Diamante in September?!
vikksimmons on 19 Mar 2009 at 5:55 pm #

Lovely thoughts appearing as I stare at the photos. And my cocker spaniel, Riley, who is an accomplished rock hound with a grand collection, would absolutely love the place.

vikksimmons’s last blog post..I write fiction. I don’t need no stinkin’ social network.

Hee hee…plenty of room for another pooch in Italy
Laura at Ciao Amalfi on 19 Mar 2009 at 6:06 pm #

Lovely photos! So it is not just me and the heart shaped rocks on these Southern Italian beaches. I have gathered a whole pile of them! (How can you leave a heart shaped rock behind once you find it??) I found one during one of the first times I was swimming in Amalfi with my boyfriend, and I carried it around in my pocket for months and months. Then I started finding them almost everytime I went to the beach last year. They say the Amalfi Coast is romantic . . . it is even in the rocks!! Thanks for making me smile!

Laura at Ciao Amalfi’s last blog post..Out & About: Baby Bibs in the Amalfi Sun

Aw, how cute! Thanks for sharing Laura
Daziano on 19 Mar 2009 at 6:27 pm #

Yes, today is Father’s Day in Italy… thanks for reminding me this! I should call my Dad NOW!!!

Daziano’s last blog post..Because only Italians take the shoe obsession to the next level

Yes, call!
saretta on 19 Mar 2009 at 9:47 pm #

After a several day warming trend…it’s cold again and pissing down rain. Oh, bother, as Pooh would say! The beach season is tantalisingly just out of reach…

saretta’s last blog post..Reef – Up Close and Personal

Oh bother is right…SNOW yesterday here!
Irene on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:15 am #

Isn’t it great to be thought of in love?

Irene’s last blog post..Fashion in times of recession

Absolutely Irene
Michelle at Scribbit on 20 Mar 2009 at 6:21 pm #

I’ve got a little collection of beach glass going myself–I love the contrast of color!

Michelle at Scribbit’s last blog post..Maybe More Volcanoes Are What I Need . . .

Gorgeous isn’t it? And free! Woohoo!
anne on 20 Mar 2009 at 8:46 pm #

Love is all around….a beautiful stone, and so great that Charlie found it and sent it to you

anne’s last blog post..A Small French Market in Oxfordshire….

Agreed, Anne
girasoli on 23 Mar 2009 at 9:50 am #

Late in saying… Very cool! Love the photos and that Charlie thought of you and Love Thursday.

girasoli’s last blog post..decisions decisions… Arezzo or ??

I agree…I was very touched
Wanderlust Scarlett on 27 Mar 2009 at 11:15 pm #

*YES*!!!!!!
I am absolutely planning on visiting Italy for 2 1/2 weeks next spring. It’s on the calendar!
Can’t wait to see the beaches.

The waiting will do me in… ;o)

Scarlett & Viaggiatore

Yay! Woohoo! Come on over!