Signs of spring in an Italian neighborhood.

1. Your elderly neighbors begin to emerge from their homes
2. The lawn chairs are set up in the driveways
3. Gardens are starting to be tilled
4. The elderly neighbors are opening their garages and moving their cars to the street to reveal the furniture, drapes, and artwork in their garages.
5. My neighbor has started his mini greenhouse box of tomato seedlings (hole in the ground covered with an old glass window and a tarp)
6. You can hear the sound of driveways are being hosed down