It's the season for foliage, enjoy; it will be over soon.

 Italian potato gnocchi with chopped pork ragout with added ricotta and chopped walnuts. I love gnocchi because they really fill you up. 

 A beautiful flower from the greenhouse at the Planting Fields Arboretum of Long Island, NY.

 

 

 Authentic pasta al pesto genovese or pasta with Genoa pesto. As you can see the pasta is trofie and the dish includes a diced potato and string beans that are cooked along with the pasta. The pesto sauce is from a recipe from my aunt who lived in Genoa for many years.

 Florence shot from Piazzale Michelangelo way back in August, 1969 with a Canon FT, a 28mm F 3.5 Canon FL lens all on Kodak Tri-X, naturally.

 Classic dish consisting of organic Italian spaghetti prepared with asparagus, peas and pancetta creating a normal creamy sauce from the starch in the pasta and the olive oil. In Italian it's called cremina. No matter how it's called the result was spectacular. Buon appetito.

 Internal courtyard in Trapani Sicily. A very old city with a long history located at the northwest corner of the Island.