Wine Road Spring
Spring always makes me think of this James Thurber cartoon, with its painful, ironic, true insight into romantic relationships, and also the take on the coming of glorious spring after the dead of winter:
‘I SAID THE HOUNDS OF SPRING ARE ON WINTER’S TRACES- BUT LET IT PASS, LET IT PASS! That repetition of the “but let it pass” line says it all about connubial bliss….this couple is obviously not traveling on Wine Road!
So true, so true….Wine Road TRULY is Heaven Condensed- 186 Wineries and 54 Lodgings clustered in a 30 mile radius and I live that motto daily. I am out and about along Wine Road, today traveling Westside Road- Spring is clearly here.
While visiting Gary Farrell Winery:
The Rose of Spring at Gary Farrell.
Westside Road next takes me to Matrix Winery, where the wisteria and California poppies take my breath away:
The annual Matrix Winery Wisteria Display.
Heading towards Healdsburg, I check in at Twomey Cellars to see their springish view to the east:
Hey- is that Mount St. Helena?….
Hmmmmm….
The view east with Twomey in the frame….Napa is over there for sure….
Hey, Mill Creek Winery has a new cool sign!
Alderbrook Winery looking springish:
Heading up further north now to Trione Vineyards & Winery on Geyserville Avenue, for an annual springtime favorite industry event, Here Comes the Sun, so very Beatles:
The landscape is budding out all over!
Forever Frisky!
Double-whammy double Wine Road Member signs! Show them with PRIDE! We love our members!
Budding out….burgeoning….
The springtime light floods this Trione building…one of my favorite places.
Reminds me of being in a ship on the Sea of Springtime.
Back in Healdsburg, over at the Haydon Street Inn:
The backyard at Haydon Street Inn.
Just around the corner from Haydon Street Inn.
The weather is mercurial- in more ways than one! Temps have soared into the mid-nineties and then dropped to provide frost and its warnings. Rain has surprised and sunny, warm days have popped up more frequently. Trees came down and the power went out yesterday in my River Office, so winter has not completely loosened its grip- but spring is gaining momentum.
Here’s looking at you, kids.
TR
Ah, young spring love….
