Barricas

After initial fermentation, the wine is transferred to oak barrels.

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Cocedero, vino


The grapes are put through the window to the left and then are squashed by hand/foot. The juice drains through the hole in the floor next to the vat where it is collected. Then it is lifted up into the vat with buckets, where the wine ferments for 6 months before being transferred to oak barrels for a year or more.

Wild flowers

These flowers were picked out in front of our building, from a small plot that the dogs (and the kids) take care of business. The day lilies I added because the curtain competed too much with the central flowers. The orange brought the purple forward so that your eye can focus on the flowers and not jump back and forth.
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Fruit bowl

In the apartment is this great side table, very heavy Spanish mission style, that I've really wanted to put into a piece and we had a couple of cold windy days so I decided to do something inside and utilize the table.
The tiles at the bottom is my little tribute to Dutch painters. Read 'The girl with the pearl earring'.
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Petanca Players

Petanca is a game similar to bocci but with fewer rules and without the constraints of a specific court.

Prairie scape

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Illinois contour at its finest.
I felt the sky turn out well on this one.