Green walnuts and wildflowers

Hello summer (I won't say welcome)

Midsummer is here; it is the time of year that I worry about the most (we’ve actually had a fairly mild June other than an oppressive heatwave that passed through Italy a few days ago when Greenpeace registered 54°C — 130°F — at the Colosseum in Rome) but it’s also the time of the festival that has become my favourite celebration of the year, la festa d…