Wonderful! I love your cantina! Is it very cool? I was a bit puzzled when I read your comment about the lovely heat that is billowing out of your stove. And then I remembered. While we're in summer you're in winter. I love the addition of salvia to your lavender and rose. I must say I use fresh herbs more than dried so thank you for the reminder. I need to prune my herb gardens and start drying again.
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Thank you, dear @buckaroobaby !! This is such a beautiful response! :-D Yes, my cantina/ cellar is quite cool BUT the new behemoth stove is actually warming and drying it out - so I may have to move a few items further downstairs into a lower cantina, out of the heat from the stove! Yes, we're just turning to later autumn now, and proper cool settling into the stones of the medieval quarter...
I've lit the stove for the first time during the day, today... and am drying orange rinds on the top of it - perfuming the house gloriously. Mmmm: dried herbs sometimes seem to have more potent perfume eh, as the active components of the leaves or branches dries out: I tend to use many plants in dried form, as they are convenient in terms of not having to use them within a short time-frame, but also I intuitively sense that they are potent that way :-)
Blessings on your day!
That is true. Although when I say I like fresh it is usually in the impulse of making food and wandering through my garden to smell what would finish off the meal suitably. Oh those drying rinds are a wonderful perfume!
Where are you in Italy? It was one of my favourite countries to visit when I lived in England. Although sadly I spent less than a week there and 3 days of that time in Rome. I don't like cities, I much prefer the country and quaint old villages. I still have a friend who lives on the eastern coast
Ahh, me too, @buckaroobaby - I dislike cities enormously, and am excited at the prospect of never having to visit one ever again ;-D I live around an hour from Naples and two from Rome - inland in the foothills of the Matese mountain range: Guardia Sanframondi, BN - it's absolutely a quaint old citadel! If you're ever passing through Italy again, I'll get the kettle on!
Thank you for the invite. Your mountain range home sounds delightful!