A fabulous trip that is still being played over and over in my heart, head, guts and deeper still, profoundly in my soul, my soles having transported me with Marianna, Yanni, George and Michele to wonders and scenes and mountains and places I will never forget, cheers! Thanks for all of this!!!!

It takes a village, 

 

 

 

a small community,

 

 

 

 a ferry 

 

 

 

and later two cars -

 

 

 

 

 one red sedan that shown brilliantly and blazed a fine trail for the dark dusty night-blue van that followed, Marianna and Michele, Claudia and Seth / George scouted ahead of us behind - YanniTsapos , George Tsapos, Jack Bettin , Seth White, Robert Morin, Jonathan Luna, Jonathan Neri and me. Marianna worried for us, she led for us, she checked everything for us, she and Yanni worked brilliantly together as a team with an assist from George - all three speaking Greek, for the rest of us it was all Greek for us! We smiled we laughed, we talked er ate and we drank and we swam and we had a whole world opened to us like never before, high resolution, many Kodak moments, some in sublime focus, some out-of-focus and comfortably numb, we were a team and we pushed ourselves to the limits never wanting to waste any precious moment we had and shared and lived individually at times and as a team at others - we were glorious, we were mad, we were divine, we were honored, blessed, loved, appreciated, welcomed into the bosoms and souls of many of these fine Greek people that make wine each and every second as if their very souls, lives, families depended on it - and they do - they spoke a beautiful English much of the time to enlighten and enrich us, and other times they spoke a magical Greek that either Yannis, Marianna or George would translate patiently for us, : we were never left out, we were always included - thank you all from me, you all have enriched my life immeasurably and thank you, too specially Marianna, Yannis, George, and Michele for getting us all there in sound body and mind for Yanni and Marianna to work their individual magics on us - cheers! Love Greek wines, people, food, the settings and all - and discovered the ' newer ' Nemea that for me as an artist was an " artist's paradise - a dream come true starting with all the tiny red poppies in that delectable, luscious ripe unctuous valley. Loved drawing you all, my honor my gift! Happy Thursday all!!!! TONY