The challenge this month with Fat Mum Slim’s Photo a Day brought a bit more of my creative nature. It’s A through Z and 1 through 5. At first I thought “Hey, this will be easy!” But then those weird letters started, or the subject that I thought would work … well, it simply didn’t. One of…
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Wine Wednesday Quote: June 29, 2016
Wine Wednesday Quote: “Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino –nun se contano mai.” Years, lovers, and glasses of wine; these things should never be counted. —Anthony Capella, The Food of Love
Wine Wednesday Quote: June 22, 2016
“A hangover is the wrath of grapes.” –Dorothy Parker (satirist, short story writer)
#JunePhotoChallenge: 1-15
Another month Fat Mum Slim‘s Photo a Day. I also joined the Facebook group– FMS Photo a Day–which quickly made me realize that I need to step up my game. This month I learned that I often have a great idea for a photo, but finding time to actually take the picture has been my downfall. I…
#May Photo Challenge 1-31
It was a fun month of following Fat Mum Slim‘s photo challenge. I discovered a lot about the importance of paying attention to the time of day. Lounging around in the morning put my shots at between noon and 4 o’clock. Beautiful blue skies became white glares. Shadows blocked out beautiful faces. Colors simply didn’t read…
Wine Wednesday: May 11, 2016
Wine Wednesday Quote: “Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.” –Charles Dickens (author of some reknown)
#AprilPhotoChallenge: 16-30
It has been a great month for photography. And I think that my photo skills are growing. My most frequent limitations have been when I have great ideas for a shot, but my time is limited or the weather is uncooperative. #16. Glass Mid-April brought 80 degree weather and blue skies to the peninsula. Burgers and brews…
Wine Wednesday: April 27, 2016
Wine Wednesday Quote: “There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.” –Robert Parker (wine critic, Baltimore native)
Holman Ranch, Carmel Valley: Oct. 2015
A bit of paradise hidden in the valley. And the great wine definitely doesn’t hurt.
Wine Wednesday: Aug. 5, 2015
“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.” –Bette Davis (actor, author, did it the hard way)
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…
Throw another shrimp (and squid) on the barbie.
Throw another shrimp (and squid) on the barbie. Oh yeah. #theundefinedcooks
Living Life Forte 