31-12-12
Another year is fading, “phew!” I’d say. 2012 has been a very tough year for me, it started full of expectations and ended full of disappointment.
This morning there wasn’t the same dreadful sky of last year but a vivid morning light and a thin glittering coat of frost, maybe a better augury for the new 2013.
I’m going to start this year with serenity and resignation, I won’t ask for anything this time, I need to enjoy what I already have.
I wish you a healthy and happy 2013, or at least I hope this new year will be better than the previous!
Now I have a dinner to prepare, a few bottles of wine to put in the fridge and some friends to welcome…
AltroVerde 
Alberto your pictures are inspiring my friend…I hope our gray days pass here and we have a sunrise we can see tomorrow…Happy New Year!!
Thanks Donna! I’ve also read the link you gave me with instructions on how to propagate viburnums and I think I will give it a try this year!
Hi Alberto,
Hope you have lovel celebrations tonight… Lovely frosty photos 🙂
The lighting in your last photo is stunning!! Have a lovely meal tonight with your friends, 2013 can only be better than 2012, wishing you and your garden happy days together in the coming year!
2012 was a bear of a year, to be sure…I hope 2013 is better. Happy New Year 🙂
Best wishes for a positive new year, Alberto.
You captured so well the glittery garden morning, most surely an indication of the new and improved year that is coming your way Alberto. Cheers!
ps: Tillie is already out cold and it isn’t even noon yet here.
Was she drinking champagne since morning?!
There is no telling what Tillie drinks.
Now I’ve added Venice to my phone weather app so I can keep track of you Alberto. Seems it is at least not raining at your house today, but chilly like here. Definitely garden catalog time…
Did you link a webcam in my house too from your iPhone?! How do you know I spent the day browsing catalogues??? 🙂
Sorry last year was so disappointing. I hope 2013 makes up for it! Happy New Year!
Alberto, I very much enjoy seeing your garden and reading your commentary. Wishing you lots of Echinacea and joy in 2012! susie
Hahaha I wish lot of echinacea to you too, Susie! 😉
Your grasses never fail to look wonderful. Have a great gardening 2013.
Christina
Your images are a beautiful way to welcome in the new year! Friends, wine, and a beautiful garden make for a good beginning. Best wishes for 2013!
It’s always a treat for me when I visit your site — it’s a vacation, of sorts, where I can breathe. I wish you the same sense of serenity in 2013. Peace always.
Oh well I think you can deeply breath in Florida as well, can’t you? I should make a house and garden swap page in this blog and see what happens… 🙂
Thanks to everyone who left comments in this post, I didn’t answer everyone individually just to avoid the ‘copy/paste’ thank you! 🙂 have a great 2013 to everyone of you.
Hope you have a wonderful year ahead.
Bridget x
Don’t forget that you painted your house in 2012. Happy New Year – wishing you all the best,
You are right bag! Actually I can’t complain anything about the house in 2012!
So you had a few bottles of wine in the fridge? But what did your friends drink? Happy New Year to you Alberto – here’s to a good ‘un! Dave
Hi Dave! Happy new year to you too!
There is something we never run out of and that is wine, spirit and crisps. 😉
Alberto, hope 2013 is bright and cheerful as the garden pictures you show us on the last day of December.
Hi Alistair! I wish you ‘buon anno’ too! Thanks for passing by!
Alberto – I know things have been tough for you – but we are past the winter solstice, and the days are growing longer. I hope you are up for the garden swap at some point?
Thank you mr K! I’d arrange the swap for the end of summer, so you find my garden at its peak and I can escape from the summer Italian heat to a chilly garden! Beware: I mean it. Seriously.
Such beautiful photographs!