Vacation

In August I was able to go home to NorCal for vacation. It was great! With only 5 1/2 days home I was still able to visit everyone, have a day to relax, work on my website a bit and devote the weekend to fun with my parents. This fun involved excellent food, some wineries and a concert.

I always talk about wine tasting when I go home so this time a 'membered to snap a few shots of one of my favorite wineries, Brassfield.

This is the driveway up to the winery.


I had to put in a shot of the parking lot cause though the picture doesn't do it justice, it's pretty cool. That's not just a grass field for a parking lot, its paved in brick or stone with honeycomb like openings that they then planted grass in.


Here is the main building.


And this is one of the cave openings. For those who may not know, almost all Wineries have a cave in which they store the barrels of wine. Again it doesn't look like much right now, but when the winery is completed they plan to have a waterfall coming down that you have to walk behind in order to enter the cave. They'll also have a full banquet hall inside eventually.


My parents enjoying wine on the veranda of the winery. Mom doesn't know I snapped this shot and would probably be mad if she knew I put it up, so shhhhhh don't tell ^_^

I was also able to go to a Toby Kieth concert while I was home. He's a country singer...and yes I like country!

Fun with streamer cannons...I gotta get me one of those.


And a shot of Toby Kieth on stage.