Positano Church & Bougainvillea

Can you hear the bells? Every hour on the hour bells would ring out from the 3 or 4 local churches through the town of Positano.  And one of the grandest churches they came from was the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption.  It is the most iconic of all the churches in the town, with its colorful majolica tiled dome in patterns of yellow, green and blue shining against the sky, the sea and the pop of pink from the blooming bougainvillea.  A nice marriage between geometric and organic, man made and heavenly created.  I remember sitting on this terrace entranced by the sounds of the bells and smells of the flowers, thinking, I could be happy living anywhere the bougainvillea grows…