I felt like I was traveling through a Da Vinci landscape. The mountains in the distance were a cool blue with undulating hills covered in patchwork fields. We would drive around a bend to see a hilltop village defending chartreuse vineyards below. Colorful workers could be seen bent over rows of grapevines that were beginging to turn yellow. The weather was perfect, with just a touch of crisp coolness. Our car twisted and turned along the "Chainti trail" above Sienna, while I sketched the ever changing shapes of the landscape out the car window. We stopped here and there to buy wine and take pictures. The villages were so cute that we felt like we were in a Disney movie set, and naughty bakeries enticed us in to challenge our will power. Tuscany is truly one of the most beautiful places we've been and it's not hard to understand how the Renaissance was born here.