Welcome to The Art of Wandering: Foliage in Abruzzo…

The word “foliage” translates the Italian “fogliame” (i.e. a cluster of leaves, branches and flowers) but its meaning does not include the spectacular time of the year when woods start changing the colour of their leaves. Yet, even though there is not a single word for that – you should explain with it a long sentence – the event does exist.

Foliage in Abruzzo | photo: ©GiuseppeMarone & ©Lonza65
Enjoy!

Riserva Naturale Orientata della Valle dell’Orfento, Caramanico Terme, (Pescara)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I/ I took the one less traveled by,/ And that has made all the difference

R. Frost, The Road Not Taken

Riserva di Lama Bianca, Sant’Eufemia a Maiella, (Pescara)

Riserva di Lama Bianca, Sant’Eufemia a Maiella, (Pescara)

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beech tree in Riserva di Lama Bianca, Sant’Eufemia a Maiella, (Pescara)

“From tiny acorns, do mighty oaks grow” 

Geoffrey Chaucer

“Midway upon the journey of our life/ I found myself within a forest dark,/ For the straight-forward pathway had been lost…”

Dante Alighieri (translation by H.W. Longfellow)

Riserva Naturale Orientata della Valle dell’Orfento, Caramanico Terme, (Pescara)

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

P.B. Shelley, Ode To The West Wind