Look! It’s some sort of spiky plant that’s all done with being green because the summer heat just dried it up. Most of what we saw in Sicily was in the various stages of being brown.  You know, the way things look when summer starts tilting into fall. Our guide said in the spring and early summer it’s as “green as Ireland.” Obviously, while I do not doubt for one second the veracity of what she said, I do need to go back in an April or a May to see that for myself.

Oh, and also, there’s a volcano.

Mt. Etna, Sicily
photographed 9.9.2022