Snapshots from trip to Rome

Finally got around to doing something with the photos we took in Rome. Decided to experiment with Picasa. (Post's title links to full size slideshow with captions.) Because we hadn't ever been there before, there are a lot of pictures toward the end taken at Villa d'Este in Tivoli, outside of Rome (I believe also known as Tivoli Gardens though no one seems to refer to it as such any more).

Kind of cold and cloudy, with occasional light rain. In the garden today:

• Cut back the sage and perovskia.
• Pruned a couple of roses, but didn't finish any.
• Cleaned up some perennial crowns. Baptisia looks like it's sending up a lot of shoots.

Postscript: Actually, Tivoli Gardens "is a famous amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. "...'Tivoli' alluding to the Jardin de Tivoli in Paris (which in its turn had been named from Tivoli near Rome).