My mind has returned again and again to this particular day… and this is what keeps nagging at my brain. For the entire time on our walk, we were surrounded by beautiful roiling rain clouds in every shade of grey, with dark and purplish bottoms, heavy laden and pouring across the Tuscan countryside. We could see them encircled all around us. Yet on the walk, we did not get more than an occasional light feeling of mist. I kept waiting for us to get hit with the downpours we were seeing from our ever rising and expanding vantage point as we got higher and higher up the mountain road, and farther away from the shelter of the church below where we had parked.

At the top, I kept suggesting that we wait and try to find some cover before we headed down into it, but the air felt electric and we kept on. Above is a view up to the Sanctuary at the top – with a purplish sky vibrating against the shadowed mossy greens and grey serene stone that has an otherworldish effect.

We continued to find some more photographs on the way back down as well and it was not until we approached the car that the raindrops started to fall. As we quickly hopped in the bottom fell out. We were all laughing hysterically as the water hit the windshield with a force like a fireman’s hose and it was then that I realized we had been in some type of protective bubble the entire way!

Maybe it was our collective happy energy, but I suspect that it was one of these three that held the power… Who do you vote for??!

All of the images in this post were taken on our walk.

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