March fields

March is here and likes to surprise us with days as glorious as this. Days without greyness and rain, without strong and dusty south winds. Days that wink at you, promising everything that we are waiting from spring: joy, openness and maybe a refreshing restart.

To be at the islands at this time of year, on such a bright day, always makes me feel like a kid in a candy shop. The colors are so vivid and so clear they seem to have popped out of a coloring book: the sky, the sea, are blue, just blue, period. The fields are bright green, as the warm Cycladic sun hasn’t turn them to gold just yet; From a bird’s eye view, you can see these curvy, mild levels of land, wisely delimited by xerolithies, unfolding all the way down to the sea.

p.s. – we were talking about the island’s soundscape the other day: here’s a small spring surprise for you, recorded today : )

photos by christos drazos

words by maria alipranti