Snow Day!
Bitter cold and a snow & ice sorm swept through the Willamette Valley yesterday – wind-chill is 5-Below at the moment, and the roads are pretty much a sheet of ice just about everywhere. And I left Chicago at age 17 to get away from this! We drove home to Portland from our Carlton cottage yesterday, a bit unaware of how treacherous the route had truly become. Conditions only allowed us to cruise at about 25-30 MPH, but we arrived home safely, extremely thankful for 4-Wheel drive in the Jeep and a new set of tires.
All Portland area schools are off today (and I imagine at least one more – it’s not warming up enough for anything to thaw out in the forseeable future.) That gives me some time to catch up here on the blog, and to catch up on some projects at home, like cleaning out those shelves & closets that have been demanding attention for quite some time…
It was very festive at the tasting room on Friday – a photo crew from Travel & Leisure descended upon us for the day to shoot pics to accompany an upcoming article in Travel & Leisure Golf in the March/April issue. You may remember a post back in October talking about our visit from Sideways author Rex Pickett – he was in town researching for his article (as well as his sequel to Sideways, which he tells us is now underway.) We recruited a bunch of our friends and customers to be a part of the shoot – including Brandon & Denise Bohling. Brandon was kind enough to take some shots of the shoot, as it were…
Lights, camera, action!
Like movies, commercials, and making wine for that matter, most things end up being a matter of “Hurry up and wait”. The shoot took about 5 hours – it will be interesting to see what shots (and how many) actually make it into the final piece…
The shoot in progress...
On another subject entirely, I was sent a link today to another wine blog that made an oblique reference to us, I think. (The wine he’s talking about is not one we import, btw.) Check it out.
And here’s a shot of the sign in front of the tasting room yesterday, with the first dusting of snow…
