We came to a small Italian village, Pietrapertosa, for a few days and found the town celebrating the festival of Saint Antonio, an ancient ritual related to the renewal of life involving the symbolic marriage of two trees. Much of this event took place in the street below our third-floor rental, so we had a terrific view of an impressive parade with teams of oxen dragging an enormous tree trunk to the church.

I made two sketches the first evening from our balcony. This first shows one of the villagers with his oxen team. The second shows a portion of the parade below us as it progressed to the church.