Yianni, our friend and employee, worked 15 days to create this beautiful stone-terraced garden. I can hardly wait to get in there to loosen the earth and plant seeds that will grow into a luscious organic garden. Our guests last year loved it that they could climb in and pick eggplant and peppers and basil for their pasta. It's too bad that we had record heat waves last summer because most of our tomatoes burst open and were only good for sauces. It happened all over Greece. We just had a terrible tomato year. I'm hoping we can put up some shade for the vegetables this year to help things along. I also need to figure out the best way to mulch so that we can save on water, which is a luxury most people don't appreciate.

The stones were dug out of our lot. We hope to dig out enough to decorate the walls of the villas with them for next summer. It is a beautiful stone, washed in earth tones of umbers raw and burnt, sienna, ochre and grays. The old masters mostly used these earth tones to paint works of art beyond belief. Nature does the same thing..... rather, Nature did it first.

Be well.....