Enjoy these photos and make your own connections and links. I had fun trying to compose them and take them and as usual was surprised with a lot of what I got here in the end. I like a lot of what I did get : it falls into the art category and so that is why these photos are posted here for you all to make of them what you will.
With my active mind I simply like to keep up with these blogs and want to test myself and push myself as well as you all in to different directions that I/ we are largely unaware of and yet happy to stumble upon by chance or a slight push and exercise of force ...
I TOOK THESE PHOTOS in 2009 and here it is Sunday, August 15th, 2010 here at home in northern Virginia in the evening and the show " Bridezilla " is on - yikes, good thing I am typing away here like a madman and tuning it out!
I have these photos of Jean-Remy's CHARLES ORBAN French champagne from the area of Troissey as well as of Jed Steele's " Writer's Block " dry red that he has made from the obscure dry French southern Rhone grape called Counoise that is sometimes blended into dry red Chateauneuf-Du-Pape southern Rhone wines named after the only a the at-the-time " new " chateau of the French Pope just outside the southern French town of Avignon. I liked this wine of Jed's that he sent to me in a magnum bottle to taste and to thank me for my continued support of his wines over the years. Thanks Jed.
I like these more artsy photos like the one above. It makes you have to think of what I have photographed and hopefully you appreciate this novel look at a very familiar subject? Maybe maybe not?!?
Look at that color above of the red Counoise grape : pretty amazing, don't you think? Doesn't it make you want to try some really soon? It does me.
Look at the bottle edge of the bottom of this champagne bottle? When was the last time you saw it so starkly and in-your-face? I like it : puts me on-edge, just a bit , just enough ... it works in a perverse way of sorts and so I like it. Makes me think beyond the bottle here that is transparent and clear ...
Interesting angle above : love my lips here : love the red wine that I can glimpse through the dark green magnum bottle glass here of the " Writer's Block " dry red STEELE Counoise ...
Our hibiscus in bloom inside in our dining room serves as our make-shift Christmas tree with ornaments ...
Bernard Brunier the owner of CHATEAU VIEX TELEGRAPH and LA ROQUETE Chateauneuf-Du-Papes ( both ) at Proof restaurant at a luncheon that I was lucky enough to have been able to attend. I really enjoyed tasting the wines and meeting Bernard. It was a pretty amazing event, really. The food was okay for me but both Bernard and his wines of LA ROQUETE were quite extraordinary.
Christmas chez nous 2009 with a bit of my watercolor as the background here ...
I like these effects when I swirl the wine ( the LA ROQUETE Chateauneuf-Du-Pape here ) and capture Bernard through my wine glass and the white wine... special, fun, never know what you will get , ever ... so don't expect anything in particular and be happy with what you do get ...
Thanks Eric Platt of the Pinnacle House of Washington Wholesalers for inviting me to this luncheon at Proof restaurant. I enjoyed myself immensely.
The wines ( red, including the great dry red 2007, and white ) are both currently for sale in our store at ClevelandPark Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008 Tel:202-363-4265 sales@clevelandparkwine.com www.clevelandparkwine.com ) where I have managed the wine department now for ten years.
Here's another one of my artsy photos that I took and seen through the wine glass. I like the way the red wine swirls and the light in the restaurant as well as my flash reflects off of the surface of the wine in motion ...
Love that lighter, clearer golden color of the dry white LA ROQUETE Chateauneuf-Du-Pape ... Cheers, TONY
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