Mission Hill

Here's a vineyard/winery that started about 30 years ago. 

It may not be your you idea of a vineyard, nor mine, but it still is very impressive.  I wish them much success and need to read further about how they accomplished all they've done. 

Pic of the Day

Sophisticated

The woman in this screen shot from the British Columbia ad that plays during the Olympics speaks one word: "Sophisticated".

I really like that.  It's great advertising.

But there is a great deal of effort in wine making.  It is farming after all.  That's a lot of what interests me.  Sure the romance and "sophistication" is nice, but a chance to work in the dirt and grown something good is much more interesting.

The Shining

 DESIGN

For some reason my mind strayed to one of my favorite thrillers "The Shining".  YouTube has a great video performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  One of the many interesting parts of this performance is the timpanist striking actual bells.  Continuing my exploration I came across this - Kubrick as Architect.

Aside from the maze, which is another concept entirely, there is a certain fascination to be had with the architecture of the building particularly in how Kubrick renders it.  But this article points to some of the fascinating architectural elements and how they relate to the story and its characters. 

"Kubrick attributes to the staircase.....a function which is not only architectural, but also figuratively and narratively pivotal."

Read the article, watch the movie again.

 

Related Stuff

There's lots of stuff to cover.  So there should be some system to identify the topic.

Let's try these for a start: 

DESIGN - to include site and building design
CONSTRUCTION - technical stuff about how to build certain things
VINES & WINE - obvious
MOG - now here is one that i really like.  The term came up during a tour of a tank farm.  Someone was describing the weighing of semis full of grapes.  Some determination had to be made about how much MOG was on the trucks. Materials Other than Grapes.  I'm going to try and take advantage of that term. 

Georgia wines.

If you know what this is, you know a lot more about wine-making than I did last week. 

Generally it's called an amphora but in Georgia it's a qvevri.  The linked article from WaPo is where I learned of this. 

Time to do some more investigation. 

Lemonade

So, I was turning some things over in my mind and decided that maybe, just for the sake of argument, I should make some changes in my approach to . . . . . . well . . . . . . just about everything in my life.

Spice up the blog, be more consistent, exercise, find a great job, get financing for the vineyard, assemble a management team. 

Gee that sounds like last years resolutions but that's when I had no motivation.  And that's all changed.