Nothing like this bottle of dry, aromatic Portuguese Muscat named " Lisa " that is being opened and served this Saturday afternoon by Danielle to our customers here in Washington D.C. N.W. on Connecticut Avenue in our nation's capitol ...
I see many beautiful women all day long as I sell wine. I'm an artist and I happen to really believe that all women are beautiful if only they will smile and show the inner as well as the outer beauty. It's plain and simple for me and I feel blessed to be around so many beautiful women each and every day. Again, plain, unvarnished truths for me and it really does sustain me in my life and daily activities and helps to bring the warmth, the energy and the wanting to be around to be part and witness to this.
Some of these photos are perhaps more successful on one level or another. Some have smile, some have grins and smirks and puzzled and questioning/thoughtful gazes and yet they all speak to me as I know many of them and these pictures just help me to get my memory jogged and my thought processes going and that's enough.
I have many other pictures and will try and download them as I get a chance as some that are not here are more flattering as images. As you will see as you scroll down some of the images are distorted through the glass wine bottle and that creates a more artsy and serious image that I still like because it makes me see that beauty is always a blend of that as well as shades of the hard and the ugly and the less than attractive - or at least attractive immediately. It's a complex issue and for me the beauty always trumps all else. Again, plain and simple - give me that anytime. I don't need the touch-ups, all the makeup and the gloss and the sheen, the preen, the pomp, the posing, etcetera - I want the true plain and simple because beauty has levels and shades but it is the simple beauty that speaks to me the most deeply/profoundly...
I love the motion and emotion and natural movement in a female, young or older ...
I love the pause and the reflection that I often see in a female when she is unaware that others may be there and when she is caught in a thought or feeling and seems far away as in this picture above.
I love this picture of a mother with her son next to her above. It's a great picture of both of them. She is writing a book about wine, Cabernet Sauvignon in articular I believe and I can't wait to read it. She said that she would bring me a copy. Thanks. Where is the little boy now : what is he thinking about here as his mother tells me the story about writing a book about wine which in all the many visits before from her and her husband I had never heard a word about any of this?!?
Our two customers above adore wine and take long walks to come and see us and taste with us on the weekends. I like and appreciate this very much. I have some of her smiling as well and will have to include one of those , too as she has a beautiful smile.
Love that smile above : it breaks through mountains and travels many miles and over seas and through forests and plains and cities before it ever sleeps ...
I love the focus and the clarity of this face above that I have gotten to know quite well over the years as we have spoken of wine and art and music especially as she is a very talented organist.
These two pictures above and below are fascinating side by side as the one above is the same as the one on the left below pouring some of this wine for her new friend holding the beautiful bunch of colorful spring flowers. The one pouring the wine gives classes in informal and fun wine-tastings and food-pairings with various cheeses as for three years she was the purchaser of cheeses for one of the Whole Foods. Her name is Susan or Suzanne and I will include her contact information here soon as she is interested in conducting and holding more wine-tastings, large or small.
The fun thing about my job is that I get to see many old friends and meet new ones all the time and help everyone with their wine needs for big and small meals, weddings, births, engagements, etcetera. Here in the picture below we have two great old friends happy to be together and enjoying a glass of wine. I know well the one on the left as I have sold her wine and been to her apartment to do wine-tastings for groups of her neighbors. She loves the LUCIEN ALBRECHT sparkling Alsace rose ( $22-$23 ) and is getting ready to purchase a bottle here for her friend as well as a bottle of the Peruvian pisco from Melanie called MACHU PISCO ( around $25 ). Her friend is the mother of the smiling and beautiful young brunette above holding the bouquet of flowers. Small world indeed and some of it has come together this weekend here for me to be a part of and witness to ... I like that a whole lot, really I do. It's great to surround oneself in beauty ...
This is such an intense and thoughtful picture above, she seems caught-up in reverie and emotion and deep in thought perhaps close and perhaps far away. I like it even though it is so completely serious and thoughtful and almost as if everything else is on pause just as she appears to be here?
There are three images here : two in the glass and one to the outside of the glass : same person and yet three different expressions - all in one? That's a whole lot o decipher and digest all in one. You have to really look at it and study it and let your mind and imagination loose to better appreciate and understand it. And not knowing the context here it's really all up to each and everyone looking at it to construct their own context and interpretation of it and this lovely, lively, enthusiastic and cheerful young brunette.
I speak French with the young lady above all the time. It's fun. She's from Canada and will be watching today the game between the Washington Capitols hockey team against her home Canadian team and she says it is tough because she does not know who to cheer for? Her Canadian boyfriend by her side here will cheer for the Washington Capitols and has no problem deciding who to cheer for as he says that the Washington team is made up of half Canadians anyway ...
Here all three are again. Two Canadians and one American that graduated from Saint John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. I introduced them here and the two young ladies were off a mile-a-minute speaking in French.
I must have said something to catch my young friend above off guard as she paid her bill at the register. Her mother loves the dry Santorini Greek white wine from the ATLANTIS vineyard and buys it for her all the time. Nice daughter.
And my new friend below clutches her bottle of CHARLES HEIDSIECK " Blue Top " Monopole N.V. Brut champagne that is her favorite to take home and enjoy with one of the cheeses that she says works fabulously with it? Which is it? She told me two days ago when she came with her father to the store to purchase wines ( bubbly ) to be enjoyed with the annual sporting competition between the ST. JOHNS and the Naval Academy soon in Annapolis, Maryland. Love that smile - it sure does warm my soul and spirits here in northern Virginia at home now having walked the dog on this cold, gray Sunday morning, 11:14 AM now on April 18th, 2010. Cheers and enjoy the day and all the beauty around : it's everywhere and so warming and inspiring. TONY
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