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alanstanley

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Ageing idealist battered by a life of surviving and family, now enjoying the fruits of a lifetime of labour. We live in a beautiful spot in a wooded valley in Umbria in a big old stone house that I rebuilt stone by stone from the ground up. Now divided into 3 apartments, 1 of which we rent in the summer to enable our survival.
You can find us here: https://www.wildumbria.uk/ (VPN reqd from US)
#SimpleLiving #SelfSufficiency #SelfBuilding #Ecology #Photography #GreenPolitics

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Once again a very good morning from the green heart of Italy

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From a couple of weeks ago when the fig leaves were still young, seen against the background of our valley.

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Perhaps the last photo of this years wisteria? Or maybe not. It is even more breathtakingly beautiful than usual this year.


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The second orchid to flower on our hillside. Orchis Italica, better known as the naked man orchid, the reason for which is obvious if you zoom in.

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Orchid

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Just a little bit more wisteria...

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Peak wisteria, silent except for the crazed buzzing of bees and distant birdsong

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A handsome butterfly on the lilac earlier today

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A gnarled old oak trunk hanging over the Val d'arrone

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Another shot from yesterdays walk. The olive tree shows the strength of the wind!

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The light isn't good for photography today, but I had to try out my new (to me) camera.
It has captured well the interesting colours in this lichen covered tree trunk I think.

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The last of the winter leaves, soon to be replaced with new growth

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Just a tree.

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Out for our morning walk on a fine February day.

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My favourite photogenic oak, standing above the hills and valleys of Northern Umbria

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Blackberry leaves illuminated by the setting sun in the woods.

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Winter oak leaves illuminated by the setting sun.

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A slightly impressionistic view of tonight's sunset

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In the woods at sunset.

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A photo looking back down from the other end of our valley with the Apennini mountains in the background.
Taken 9 years ago before my SLR broke and when we still had winters.

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Winter sunset.

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Thread:
This is going to be a self-publicity post, so I apologise to those who don’t like such things; as I will explain, we need this appeal to the fediverse to enable our financial survival this coming year.
A brief history:
I came to this place young, idealistic, and naive over 30 years ago. My dream was to live a self-sufficient life with as low an environmental impact as possible, the dream of living off of the land. 1/9

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The valley is looking beautiful today but it is a day of mourning for us as we have lost our beloved puppy.
It is amazing how much love and affection that little animal gave us in 4 short months.😢

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Thread:
This is going to be a self-publicity post, so I apologise to those who don’t like such things; as I will explain, we need this appeal to the fediverse to enable our financial survival this coming year.
A brief history:
I came to this place young, idealistic, and naive over 30 years ago. My dream was to live a self-sufficient life with as low an environmental impact as possible, the dream of living off of the land. 1/9

A kitchen/living room of a stone house with white walls and wooden beams and floor
An old stone house surrounded by greenery and with red roses climbing the wall. Outside, a white dog with black ears looks towards us
A small round swimming pool, bright blue between the trees, with a wooden deck and a person sunbathing upon it.

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I would have preferred to have done this in the country of my birth (South West England) but such a thing was impossible with the very small amount of money I had saved and so I became a reverse economic migrant, searching for a poor life in my mother’s country of birth, Italy. After much searching, (for the money I had was very little even in the depopulated abandoned countryside of rural Umbria in the late 1980’s)
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I finally found and fell in love with this beautiful place with its’ abandoned and demolished old stone farmhouse. And so I spent my life’s savings to buy it, leaving myself with no money, no work other than irregular casual work, and a young family dependent on me. And then I had to build a house for us. No money to pay for help and constrained to use only the materials that were at hand, stones, a lot of them, plus 2 bags of lime and 1 bag of cement per week
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