First harvest! After a close call with the deer and turkeys, the cukes are producing. #gettingmygardenon #pickleme
Author: LivingLifeForté
Shutterbug. Half of a couple who cooks together. Freelance wine geek. Local food enthusiast. Partner in a garagiste winery. University lecturer.
Amateur – “lover” (fr.)
Amateur Amateur – “lover” (fr.) From French “amator” (lover) – an amateur is someone who engages in an activity for the love of it rather than the money. from theenglishcrux: Pretty much why I do most things. Perhaps that’s why I am broke. –forté
Wine Wednesday: July 22, 2015
“Wine is bottled poetry.” –Robert Louis Stevenson (author, travel writer, California wine aficionado) [and the only poetry I like –forté]
Yikes, is that a hat?
“Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.” ―Charlotte Perkins Gilman, If I Were a Man On Saturday, I walked into our local French bakery. I usually just pop in, order a café au lait and a waist-killing pastry, then…
Wine Wednesday: July 15, 2015
“What is the definition of good wine? It should start and end with a smile.” –William Sokolin (wine merchant, breaker of bottles)
The Running Iron, Carmel Valley
“Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.” –Mark Twain (author, humorist, misquoted man) Call me a sucker, but I have fallen for it—the Carmel Valley charm. Wine country meets Old West, the little village is…
Sunset on Phone Camera
On the one night I don’t take my DSLR to Cachagua … amazing sunset. #livinglifeforte
Grouse – “all out (of beer)”
Grouse Grouse – “all out (of beer)” In German taverns they would cry “gar aus!” (all out) when their cups were dry and needed a refill. This gave rise to both grouse (to complain) and carouse (to have a rowdy good time). from theenglishcrux [I have a feeling The Undefined will be hearing this from me from…
Wildflower Love: Lupines
“Now my fine friends, no false moves please. I want you to hand over all the lupins you’ve got.” –Dennis Moore (Monty Python character, poacher of posies) I could start off with hyperbole that waxes the rapture that I have when delved in the botanical world, but let’s face it, wordiness is NOT my thing. So flat…
Throw another shrimp (and squid) on the barbie.
Throw another shrimp (and squid) on the barbie. Oh yeah. #theundefinedcooks
Wine Wednesday: June 24, 2015
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” –Galileo Galilei (astronomer, physicist, scientist, father of three)
Thank you, sommeliers …
Pretty much.
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