I encountered this magnificent rock in the mid-eighties while
staying at a friend's vineyard in Tuscany and spent hours studying
and drawing it. I never quite knew how it was going to reappear
in my life.
Fifteen years later while pondering the Verdant issue, I found
myself wanting to picture Gina (the self-given human name for a
female ET contact of Philip Krapf, whose report "The Contact
Has Begun" outlines the proposed Verdant plans) in a natural
human context and the image of that Tuscan rock came shimmering
back to my visual imagination.