{"id":5753,"date":"2014-05-12T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2014-05-12T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:48:00","slug":"wild-daffodils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wild-daffodils\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Daffodils"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Serena, with Photos and Translation by Geoff<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Prati di Logarghena, with the rugged peaks of the Apuane Alps in the background.<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Mai prima di sabato avevo visto cos\u00ec tante giunchiglie selvatiche! Mi era stato detto tante volte che a maggio i Prati di Logarghena sono ricoperti di giunchiglie, ma pensavo che fosse la solita esagerazione. I Prati di Logarghena sono appunto dei prati a circa 1000 metri di altitudine, dove un tempo i contadini andavano a fare il fieno e portavano le mucche a pascolare durante l\u2019estate (cos\u00ec mi raccontava Renata, un\u2019anziana qui del paese). In linea d\u2019aria distano solo circa 3 km da casa nostra, ma la strada tutta curve che porta l\u00ec \u00e8 ben pi\u00f9 lunga.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Until Saturday I\u2019d never seen so many wild daffodils! I\u2019d been told lots of times that in May the Meadows of Logarghena are covered in daffodils, but I thought it was just the usual exaggeration. The Meadows of Logarghena, at around 1000 meters (3,280 ft.), are the pastures where the farmers once used to go to make the hay and take their cows to graze during the summer (as Renata, an old woman from our village, told me). It\u2019s only 3 kilometres from our house as the crow flies, but the very windy road that takes you there is a lot longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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After about an hour we began to see the first daffodils: first an isolated one \u2026<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Un paio di giorni fa ho sentito dire che domenica su in Logarghena ci sarebbe stata la Festa della Giunchiglia organizzata come tutti gli anni dal CAI (Club Alpino Italiano), e cos\u00ec ho detto a Geoff: \u201cAndiamoci prima che ci vadano centinaia di persone a schiacciarle e a raccoglierle\u201d. Perci\u00f2 sabato scorso, visto che era una bella mattina soleggiata e non avevamo nessun impegno, abbiamo deciso di fare una passeggiata su a Logarghena, per vedere se davvero ci fossero tutte queste giunchiglie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A couple of days ago I\u2019d heard that on Sunday there would be the Festival of the Daffodils up at Logarghena, organised, as it is every year, by CAI (the Italian Alpine Club), so I said to Geoff: \u201cLet\u2019s go there before hundreds of people arrive to squash and pick them\u201d. Therefore, last Saturday, seeing as it was a beautiful sunny morning and we didn\u2019t have any commitments, we decided to take a walk up to Logarghena, to see if there really were all these daffodils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 then two or three together \u2026<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Abbiamo parcheggiato la macchina pochi metri prima della fine della strada \u2018asfaltata\u2019, e da l\u00ec ci siamo fatti gli ultimi 4 km a piedi, tutti in salita ovviamente, poich\u00e9 c\u2019\u00e8 un dislivello di oltre 300m. Dopo circa un\u2019ora abbiamo cominciato a vedere le prime giunchiglie: dapprima una isolata, poi due o tre insieme, poi un po\u2019 di pi\u00f9, finch\u00e9 \u2026 ecco all\u2019improvviso apparire i prati! Sono letteralmente bianchi di giunchiglie! Giunchiglie dappertutto, a perdita d\u2019occhio! E\u2019 uno spettacolo incredibile, che toglie il fiato!<\/strong><\/p>\n

We parked the car a few meters before the end of the paved road, and from there we did the final 4 km (2.5 miles) on foot, all uphill obviously, because there\u2019s a difference in altitude of 300 meters (980 ft.). After about an hour we began to see the first daffodils: first an isolated one, then two or three together, then a few more, until \u2026 then suddenly the meadows appeared! They were literally white with daffodils! Daffodils everywhere, as far as the eye could see! It was an incredibly breath-taking sight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 then a few more, until \u2026 the meadows appeared!<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Misto al bianco delle candide giunchiglie il giallo sfolgorante degli spavaldi ranuncoli, il viola intenso ma pi\u00f9 nascosto delle viole del pensiero, le macchie di porpora delle orchidee, l\u2019azzurro della veronica, il blu vibrante dell\u2019erba viperina. Il tutto incoronato dalle cime tondeggianti dell\u2019Appennino Tosco Emiliano e da quelle pi\u00f9 aguzze delle Alpi Apuane sullo sfondo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mixed amongst the pure white of the daffodils was the dazzling yellow of bold buttercups, the intense but better hidden violet of pansies, the purple stains of orchids, the azure blue of speedwell, and the vibrant blue of the Viper\u2019s Bugloss. All of this was crowned by the rounded crests of the Appennino Tosco Emiliano mountains, and by the more rugged peaks of the Apuane Alps in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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the dazzling yellow of bold buttercups<\/font><\/em><\/strong> \u2026 the purple stains of orchids \u2026<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

E poi i suoni: solo il canto dei grilli nascosti nell\u2019erba e quello degli uccelli fra i boschi di faggi e niente altro \u2026 solo la pura magia della Natura!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And then there were the sounds: only the song of the crickets hidden amongst the grass and the birds amongst the beech woods and nothing else \u2026 just the pure enchantment of Nature!<\/p>\n

N.B.: Sono letteralmente bianchi di giunchiglie! Giunchiglie dappertutto, a perdita d\u2019occhio! E\u2019 uno spettacolo incredibile, che toglie il fiato!<\/font> In Italian we sometimes move from the past tense to the present tense because we want to bring the story alive, as if we were there at that moment. This is called \u2018il presente narrativo\u2019 = the narrative present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

By Serena, with Photos and Translation by Geoff The Prati di Logarghena, with the rugged peaks of the Apuane Alps in the background. Mai prima di sabato avevo visto cos\u00ec tante giunchiglie selvatiche! Mi era stato detto tante volte che a maggio i Prati di Logarghena sono ricoperti di giunchiglie, ma pensavo che fosse la…<\/p>\n

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