Saturday, March 30, 2013

Home Is Where the Heart Is.



I want to go home…to the sun, the sea, the souvla.  Pittsburgh, here I come!  Whoops, I mean Mykonos. Of course, the mistake is understandable what with both places once renown for feared Pirates who’d roamed about them so very long ago. 


Mykonos is known for a lot of things…and fantasized over for many more, but this is about what is special to me, what first comes to mind when I think of Mykonos.

The Island’s many whites…




The Windmills symbolic of its nickname, “the Island of the Winds”...



The differences of place so closely tied to the same Aegean Sea…

Little Venice…


The Lighthouse…

Armenistis lighthouse with Tinos island in background

And, in thanks to you, Maestro Dimitris Koutsoukas, for the photographs I pilfered from your collection for this post, this one’s for you...


Jeff—Saturday
at 12:00 AM
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14 comments:

  1. barbMarch 30, 2013 at 9:20 AM

    I want to see your 'home". It looks beautiful and through your eyes I feel like I've been there! Hugs..

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  2. AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 at 9:26 AM

    Your photographs are simply breathtakingly gorgeous!!! Thelma Straw in Manhattan

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    1. Jeffrey SigerMarch 30, 2013 at 9:40 AM

      Thanks, Thelma, but the appreciation goes to my friend, Dimitris, for spending what seems his every waking hour gathering more photos of his island. That is when he's not making the world's best sausages in San Francisco.

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  3. Mark CurelopMarch 30, 2013 at 9:31 AM

    Beautifully composed Jeff.

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    1. Jeffrey SigerMarch 30, 2013 at 9:42 AM

      Thanks, Mark, I appreciate that. As hard as it may seem to believe, going though hundreds of photographs to find the few that tell the story I want to tell takes just about the same amount of time as if I were writing a non-pictorial blog post.

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  4. lil GlucksternMarch 30, 2013 at 1:51 PM

    Your post made me homesick for a place I've never been. Beautiful. Are the little ones in the first picture any relation to you? In Pittsburgh?

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    1. Jeffrey SigerMarch 30, 2013 at 4:31 PM

      As a matter of fact, Lil, those are 100% Mykonian children and a purebred Mykonian street cat!

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  5. AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 at 8:34 PM

    Those are absolutely breathtaking photos. Surely Mykonos is one the eighth wonder of the world.

    Makes me want to pack up and get a one-way plane ticket to that island.

    So, why the heck aren't you there?

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  6. Jeffrey SigerMarch 30, 2013 at 9:43 PM

    You're right, Kathy, it is. I'm not because my daughter is having a baby. It was a tough choice but she knows where the bodies are buried :))

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  7. Caro RamsayMarch 31, 2013 at 10:39 AM

    So that blog took you a long time did it Jeff? Just how long did you take selecting that very last photo.....

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  8. Jeffrey SigerMarch 31, 2013 at 11:34 AM

    Yes, Caro, you have no idea how difficult my struggles to come up with that final photo. I searched through so many candidates looking for the perfect expression to make my point. But, alas, I know I shouldn't complain, for we all suffer in our own special ways for our art.

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  9. Other LisaMarch 31, 2013 at 5:03 PM

    Oh, that amazing combination of white and blue -- it's how I've always pictured Greece, and it is about my favorite color palate in the world...one of these days!

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  10. Jeffrey SigerMarch 31, 2013 at 7:06 PM

    And it has more than enough bars to satisfied the whole MIE crew and more! Just let me know when.

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