It's hard to believe it's my third trip to the Priorat this year. The dream of a year round life seems possible. Came back to see the <(finca)> plowed up, and wept as I rounded the corner in my Smart car. So beautiful! Definition to the terraces, the landscape, the trees.The next step is smoothing it all out, and begin the process of cleaning all the existing olives and planting new. Our crop this year may be down, but within a couple of years we are back to what the neighbors and those in the know say is an amazing yield.
The 4th annual <(Tast amb Llop)> was amazing. Cristina and Waldo outdid themselves.The Spanish TV personality,<(El Gran Wyoming)> ,was the star attraction, playing classic rock tunes to a crowd that included village inhabitants and foreigners from all parts of Europe, there to taste some of the best wines in the world, including Clos Figueres and Mogador, Alvaro Plalacios, René Barbier, and, my favorite,<(Sao del Coster)>. . After a day of helping Pep Figueres set up tents, and then being ticket collector with Marta at the entrance, I was left stupefied by the unfolding events. Something about El Gran Wyoming singing Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" in the town center of Gratallops brought me to tears. By midnight I got myself back in to the Smart and headed back over the mountain home to La Figuera, missing out on Waldo's wild boar dinner, and ongoing festivities until 6 a.m. I am told. What a poop!
And then the rains. Pity we don't have our rainwater catchment system in place. Two days to stay inside and work, preparing pieces for Lincoln Center in June. Yesterday I ventured out for a walk in the countryside, only to find the <(vines)> and poppies even more beautiful after a healthy drink
I am left wondering why bother to paint? Nature herself is doing a fine job.
Off to Reus today, with Cristina. Girls day out, to Zahra for Violet's b'day presents!
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