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Wearing the Dandara Skin by Moccino Beaute in the tone Cafenia, available at the mainstore
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NATIONAL WINE DAY
Pour a glass of your favorite wine on May 25 to participate in National Wine Day.
Made from fermented grapes or other fruits, wine is an alcoholic beverage. During the fermentation processes, yeast consumes the sugars in the grapes converting it into alcohol. Different grapes produce different wines. Winemakers will combine different wines to create more complex flavors. Wines made from fruit or honey are often named according to the variety of fruit used.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Reminisce with family and friends over a glass of wine. Enjoy wine with a favorite meal or on your favorite deck........ :) :)
While the other wineries may have their views up from on high on the hillsides, the landscaping at Wrath Wines on the valley floor was far more interesting and picture worthy.
I wish you a cooler Sunday with summer wine......
Summer Wine
Strawberries, cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
I walked in town on silver spurs that jingled to
A song that I had only sang to just a few
She saw my silver spurs and said let's pass some time
And I will give to you summer wine
Oh, oh summer wine
Strawberries, cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Oh, oh summer wine ................
The Douro Wine Region Valley is the oldest demarcated wine region in the world. First, the river carved the deep valleys out of the land and then Man transformed the schist mountains into soil and walls and planted the vines. With knowledge handed down from generation to generation, he inclined the terraces to expose the vines to the rays of the sun which give the grapes the warmth that the wine craves. It was from the fruits of the land and Man’s labor that this unique wine and landscape were made.
Douro Valley Portugal
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
Galileo Galilei
The star of this show is the Veritas Viognier and it's a wine tailor-made for a warm Virginia afternoon with its nose of flower blossoms and fresh peaches . All it really needs is a bushel of Chesapeake Blue Crabs or maybe some grilled shrimp and some good friends to share it with. The Viognier grape has been named the signature grape of our State and for good reason. It is a treat and a half.....if you're lucky enough to find it.
Best viewed LARGE and thirsty. : ))
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Relaxing with wine is the dream but who has time for that these days?
I guess I made a Primfeed account. Will be interesting to see if that affects the Flickr SL community long term.
My Primfeed- Here
Sunlight getting to work on Parkhouse and Chrome Hills. I was worried that the bank of cloud drifting in from the west was going to scupper the sunrise colours but I was lucky that it remained clear for a while
"Ain't but three things in this world
that's worth a solitary dime
But old dogs
and children
and watermelon wine"
- - Lyrics from "Watermelon Wine" by Tom T. Hall
I went out yesterday afternoon not expecting much since it was cold, gray, and the light was quite flat; but I'd had more than a bellyful of dismal news (COVID stats, hypocritical politicians, bellicose egomaniacs, etc, etc) and just needed to come up for air. Lucky me...I stumbled across this photogenic duo and came away with this casual portrait. The young lady was as friendly as could be while her guardian was, well, a little concerned over what I was doing. : )) But this chance encounter was just the spirit lift I needed, and it reminded me of the truth in those lyrics. I hope you'll get a grin from this.
Best viewed LARGE.
One single long exposure. No photoedition : straight out of the camera except for contrast/crop.
Model: Greg Padawan
Assist: Nico Nard
Light painting session with Nico Nard, Stef Mantelli, Graigue Padawan, Sifu, ATB ART
1929 Mercedes SSK boat tailed speedster by Murphy with an appropriate color for living in the Wine Country of Sonoma, Ca. The only one of the total of 37 SSKs to be bodied in the US, at the Walter M Murphy coachbuilding site in Pasadena, CA. It now lives at the Keller collection......at a winery.......
In the years before the first world war raged over Europe, Mercedes had established itself as a leading racing car manufacturer; in 1914 a Mercedes won the French Grand Prix and a year later a similar car took a victory in the Indy 500. Despite the grim financial situation in Germany after the war, Mercedes was keen to take up racing once again. To cut costs the competition cars of the early 1920s shared many parts with the contemporary road cars and with the earlier racers. During the war the Stuttgart based company had learned valuable lessons in the then novel idea of forced induction thanks to the production of airplane engines. By 1922 the Roots-Type Supercharger had become standard equipment on Mercedes' racing cars.
With the arrival of the talented Austrian designer Ferdinand Porsche the successes returned starting with a win in the 1924 Targa Florio. Porsche's first clean sheet design was built to the two-litre Grand Prix regulations and featured a twin-cam eight cylinder engine. It was quickly left obsolete as the rules changed at the end of the 1925 season. The young Austrian's next task was to design a new supercharged engine for a new range of luxury models launched late in 1924. Dubbed the 400 and 630, the two new machines were equipped with six cylinder engines of 4 and 6.3 litre displacement respectively. Both engines were fitted with an engageable Supercharger, which only worked when the acceleration pedal was fully depressed. This was a compromise to have the power available when really needed and still minimize the stress on the engine.
Within a year, Porsche had reworked the 630 into a racing car with a similar engine, but with a shorter chassis. After the new chassis dimensions, the new racer was named K for Kurz or Short. After the merger with Benz in 1926, a completely new chassis was developed for the potent engine. It was significantly lower than the original K chassis to increase the handling characteristics of the heavy machine. Again for obvious reasons this new car was known as the S for Sport. To further improve the performance the engine displacement was increased to 6.7 litres, yielding 225 bhp with the 'Elephant' Supercharger engaged and enough torque to move a house. The six cylinder engine now also sported a cylinder block constructed of silumin; a very light and strong alloy of aluminium and silicon.
For the 1928 season an even larger version of the engine was developed by increasing the bore to a staggering 150 mm, resulting in a displacement of 7069 cc. This model received the nameplate ss and like its predecessors was available as a complete cycle fender racing car or as a rolling chassis for coachbuilders to body. Caracciola continued his Nürburgring form by winning the German Grand Prix for sports cars on the legendary track with the new ss. Later in the year a shorter version was introduced especially for the popular hillclimb races; the ssK. Both cars were campaigned in the following years with considerable success in a variety of events and against machinery ranging from the nimble Alfa Romeos to the massive Bentleys. With a special lightweight version of the ssK, Caracciola scored the White Elephants' biggest success by winning the 1931 Mille Miglia. He was the first non-Italian to win the 1000 mile road race and did so in a record-breaking pace of 101.1 km/h.
The advent of a new generation of lighter sports cars left the heavy ssK obsolete by 1930. Caracciola' s success in 1931 was very much down to his exceptional skill and the special ssKL he used. Due to economic crisis, Mercedes-Benz was forced to retire from racing at the end of 1931. At that point the German manufacturer had produced an estimated 33 ssKs and only a handful of ssKLs. Due to accidents in period a large number of cars were destroyed or scrapped and only very few have survived unscathed. Many of the salvaged parts have later been used for reconstruction and there are believed to be over a 100 ssKs in existence today, which claim to be built around original bits. One of the all time greats!
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Photo taken using home made microscope attached to iPhone. It depicts crystals formed in evaporated wine.