The creative juices have been flowing. #11. Beverage. #12: Comfy #13. Planning #14. This is Lunch It was too windy to enjoy our little snack on the beach, so we sat in the truck and watched the waves roll in. My beloved had leftover shrimp cocktail that his mother had made. She makes it much…
Author: LivingLifeForté
Shutterbug. Half of a couple who cooks together. Freelance wine geek. Local food enthusiast. Partner in a garagiste winery. University lecturer.
Wine Wednesday: March 16, 2016
Wine Wednesday Quote: “I shall drink no wine before its time. OK, it’s time!” –Groucho Marx (comedian, film star, cigar smoker)
#MarchPhotoChallenge: Catching Up
Getting my creative groove on. #MarchPhotoChallenge: Catching Up
#MarchPhotoChallenge: Catching Up
Last year, I bought a DSLR. Nothing special. A Nikon D3200. A photographer told me it was a good starter camera for someone like me who has been using a pocket Canon superzoom for the last fifteen years. After purchasing the camera, I audited an introductory digital photography course with a friend who was finishing up some units at…
Wine Wednesday: March 9, 2016
I love this butterfly art from Calcareous Winery in Paso Robles. Wine Wednesday: March 9, 2016
Wine Wednesday: March 9, 2016
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. — Charles Dickens (author, social commentator, a.k.a The Inimitable)
Dichelostemma capitatum: Don’t Google Its Common Name
“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?” — James Montgomery (British poet, campaigner to end child exploitation) The winter rains have blessed us with a bounty of wildflowers. As I headed out to the mountains last Sunday, I hoped that a break in the rain would give me the opportunity to shoot…
Playing with Food: Sardine and Swiss Chard Gratin (or Why My Cat Licked My Shoe)
It all started with an abundance of organic Swiss chard in my community garden. When I spotted aphids on one plant, I knew that it would be a fight to save the crop if they took hold. Instead of whipping out my bottle of insecticidal soap, which would have been fruitless with the rain that…
National Mulled Wine Day: March 3, 2016
Our temps are in the 70s this week. I’ll take my mulled wine over ice with a bit of orange! Wine Wednesday spilling to Mulled Wine Thursday Quote: “Mulled wine, heavy on the cinnamon and light on the cloves. Off with you, me lad, and be lively!” –Henry Travers (as the guardian angel Clarence, It’s a…
Camera Play: Community Garden
Spring is finally hitting the garden.
Wine Quotes
Wine and Age “Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.” — Anonymous “A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.” — Stephen Phillips, Ulysses, III. ii “What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.” — Thomas Moore, National Airs, Spring and Autumn “Alonso of…
Wine Wednesday: Feb. 23, 2016
“Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.” — Lord Byron (a.k.a. George Gordon Byron, English poet, frequenter of Berry Bros. & Rudd)
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