Somethings like this I do just for the love of the moment and the joy I get and I give and the fact that things click and fall into place : and that I find life beautiful and those around me beautiful, and I like to give a big ' thanks ', a ' grand merci ' for that as it always takes a village, more than one anyone to make a moment such a wonderful success.
This was an event that just fell into place in a lovely serendipitous way. It just happened.
The one goal of all of this was to find Anne-Marie a non-French white wine that would complement the fabulous local Maryland and Virginia oysters.
It was also important that that same wine could also complement much of the rest of the food served here at this annual wine-tasting event. As you can see it also included some fabulous cheeses that are here really optimally displayed on a large mirror that serves as a platter and reflects so much from it's surface all the while. So clever and artsy, I love that, being an active artist I love that, really I do!
As you can see Anne-Marie's beautiful turquoise scarf is the unifying color and image in all of these pictures, even when you may not see her.
This is also a celebration of Anne-Marie and her beautiful, contagious personality that is so free-spirited and lovely and genuine. It caught me up completely quite unexpectedly, quite off-guard, and yet I was a willing captor in all of this, and with my trusty camera I tried to capture much of the moment and pleasure and fun here.
It's always nice when everyone plays, everyone gets caught up into the moment : most here did, too. You can see it here in these photos. The movement and the color and the vibrancy of the red wine helps. What pure joy, what pure pleasure. What a pure and precious soul is Anne-Marie's!
We had to taste the REVERDY dry white Loire Sancerre even though we were looking for a dry and flavorful white wine from the United States to satisfy our mission for Anne-Marie! Look at how Anne-Marie's turquoise long and flowing scarf is the perfect background for this liquid Loire Valley 100% Sauvignon Blanc!
Italy and France and Veneto and southern Rhone and Cartise and sparkling Italian wine - a Prosecco - all come here together above , thanks, merci, grazie to REBULI.
Ahhhh, the wonders of that reflective cheese [latter, too.
One of my very favorite pictures taken Anne-Marie enjoys the REBULI and tells me that her tolerance for alcohol is really low. Yet she was quite the trooper here. Merci Anne-Marie pour tous. Surtour pour ton joie de vivre totale!
Anne-Marie was/ is a sharer, and with one of the oyster-meisters she shares the BUTY Washington State mostly Semillon dry, flavorful white blend. he was most appreciative, too as he shared his three oysters, all from the same type but grown in three different local regions of Virginia and Maryland.
Here the three of us come together in our wonderful celebration of the moment, so by-chance, so serendipitous, so totally unplanned and unexpected, so bonding.
The fun and the spirit of pure glee and enjoyment - sharing our precious time together here. Loved it, really I did.
Merci infinement Anne-Marie. Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn 3/23/2-14
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