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Leslie goes to Napa with Jenn and Julie. They pose in front of the vineyard on a rickety and picturesque wagon. - IMG 4299
Less of the hills, more of the people. - IMG 4300
The road to one winery. - IMG 4301
Ah, pictures out of moving car windows. - IMG 4302
At another vineyard. Fall is a beautiful season to go: the ground is green and the vines are red and gold. - IMG 4303
more of Napa - IMG 4305
Jenn drives. - IMG 4306
Julie, in the backseat - IMG 4307
More pictures from a moving car - IMG 4308
again - IMG 4310
What they presume to call a "grocery store" in Napa: bread, cheese, fancy spreads, alcohol. And masses of people. - IMG 4311
Julie and Leslie kick it outside. - IMG 4313
Julie and Jenn fawn over Coach hats. - IMG 6257
Bryan with a stalk of sprouts - IMG 6270
Sous absconds with one and actually eats the whole thing. - IMG 6271
Eventually. - IMG 6277
Turns out all it takes is a little bacon to turn any vegetable delicious. - IMG 6278
mussels in tomatoes and sherry - IMG 3043
fall scene - 2014-11-13
- 31 week annie
- Grapes
Leslie appreciates some wine grapes. We may have also sampled them. - IMG 20141113 181912856
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the real wine cellars - IMG_0066
including the inevitably naughty ones - IMG_0067
another playground! this one wine-grape themed - IMG_0071
Always iconoclasts, we ended up in a beer bar for dinner during our night in wine country. In fairness, it had been practically impossible to find decent beer thus far. Plus, Leslie was in the throws of a cold and needed some heathful Franziskaner to heal properly. - IMG_0072
the remarkable-for-Spain beer list - IMG_0073
A side effect of turning our back on wine was that we had some delicious dry cider (sidra) from Northern Spain, which you pour into glasses from great height to give it some foaminess.