You taught me that everything is a sign. So when I picked up the ring for our engagement on Friday and went to a nursery to get an old rose to hang the little box in to ask you to marry me, hearing a builder talking about looking for a chestnut tree for a new allotment definitely seemed like a good omen.
Now I´m here below your house on my motorcycle, you only know that we´re going to Castagneto Carducci, there, where we met and fell in love, but you don´t know that ours will be perhaps a more important date.
I watched on the ride your smiling face, your unruly locks peeping out under your helmet.
We´ve arrived, you look a little confused as a grizzled man with a good-natured air approaches us and introduces himself.
He shows us the whole lot, 50,000 square meters an endless expanse of olive trees adjacent to the village of Donoratico and explains the first part involves the construction of a series of villas each with its own garden there about 150 square meters each.
Yeah, our first house will be here, if you want it, a two-story villa, me being the less imaginative of the two
I had to see the plans, but you are already measuring with your eyes the space we will have. The way you look you first took care of figuring out how big the garden will be, and 500 square meters is the right size for us, to accommodate friends and to grow first a dog and then children.
The house I already know reflects your way of being, a big single space on the ground floor overlooking that garden where you will grow your endless botanical experiments.
In the pergola outside you have already decided that you will plant strawberry grape plants, your favorite, that will keep us cool in the summer, color our days in the fall, and in the winter with its slender structure let the light shine through.
It seems to me that you have already decided, the two rooms on the ground floor we will share for our passions but they will have to have a sofa bed each to accommodate friends and family.
The one on the second floor will be our room with en suite bathroom and overlooking the terrace.
You´ve already told me what the terrace will look like, covered with jasmine plants to conceal the…
