Jackie's Blog

...and my photograph every day for my blog has slipped a bit recently. I still take at least one picture every day because I do my 365 self portraits . I belong to both the main 365 Flickr group, with currently 14,556 members, and to another smaller group with only 216 members. The latter are very supportive and fun, so we comment on each others' photos and it is quite an incentive to post one. The blog takes a little longer to do and I don't have so many interesting things to talk about on a daily work grind basis- but I try! Today, we did the usual chores and finally ended up at Sycamore Creek Vineyards for their 2007 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir release. The Chardonnay was their oaked version, but I prefer their Naked Chardonnay. This is only their second Pinot release and it is really nice. The grapes come from their Santa Cruz Mountains vineyards and it is a really good balance between fruity and smoky. It's still young, so will only get better but we like it! To accompa...

As part of Dick's birthday weekend, we went for a drive in the Mustang with the roof down. Dick had already scoped out some wineries he wanted to visit. It was the first time we had decided to explore the Santa Cruz mountains wineries. There are a lot of them! Dick found a self-guided tour of a few wineries which had Pinot Noir on their tasting list. I mainly took pictures of scenery and flowers. A couple of which I have posted to my Flickr page. The last one we visited was in an old school house called Burrell School Vineyards . They had very cleverly named their wines with a school theme and their wine wasn't bad either!