We've been going to the Vinyards since 1967, the year we moved to Massachusetts. It's a place that's been very special in the life of our family. I must have taken a thousand pictures of this scene over 30 years, but Jim caught it so beautifully. It's hard to imagine his being able to do it, and catch the mood so well from just a photograph, particularly since he'd never been there before. It's the most amazing thing. It sits right over us both in the kitchen. I even installed track lighting so I could do justice to the painting. This place is now a part of our daily lives, not only because we think and talk about it, but because we see it.

Howard Berwind, on the painting he received as a 60th birthday gift from his wife.