May 6, 2013 - Vineyards

CaliforniaMama · 05-07-2013, 12:31 AM

From, of all places, a travel website.

SPUCK · 05-07-2013, 05:26 AM

I see the vines. Where are the yards?

Pete Zicato · 05-07-2013, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by SPUCK

I see the vines. Where are the yards?

Unit of measurement - there's yards and yards o them vines.

Sundae · 05-07-2013, 08:24 AM

I tried to find a photo of the only vineyard I've seen more than once.
Okay, I was actually looking for other photos, but it seemed like synchronicity.
It was taken in 1987 on a disposable camera. Not great quality.

But I thought it was dead romantic because it was just abandoned. It was when I spent some time at a school in France, and although I stayed in quasi-suburbia, the hillside village just 15 minutes walk away was stone-built and just breathing in made you feel French (unlike the school I went to, where I was over-dressed and the unwelcome recipient of young, male, French hormones.)

I walked past the ex-vineyard every day and was amazed that such a large space of fertile ground in an inhabited area was still vacant.
We're like the Japanese - small island, large population. We'll build anywhere that's big enough for a mouse to fart in.

Anyway I couldn't find the photo.
So ignore the above

ToastyOhs · 05-07-2013, 09:05 AM

The Windows desktop background, Bliss, is actually a vineyard out in California that was was cleared out. (some sort of blight, as I recall) The hillside is now covered in vines again.

Pete Zicato · 05-09-2013, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ToastyOhs

The Windows desktop background, Bliss, is actually a vineyard out in California that was was cleared out. (some sort of blight, as I recall) The hillside is now covered in vines again.

Interesting bit of trivia. Thanks.

Here's the wiki entry that shows the comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_%28image%29

BigV · 05-15-2013, 10:49 AM

It always reminded me of the Palouse.

05-07-2013, 12:31 AM	#1
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05-07-2013, 08:24 AM	#4
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I tried to find a photo of the only vineyard I've seen more than once. Okay, I was actually looking for other photos, but it seemed like synchronicity. It was taken in 1987 on a disposable camera. Not great quality. But I thought it was dead romantic because it was just abandoned. It was when I spent some time at a school in France, and although I stayed in quasi-suburbia, the hillside village just 15 minutes walk away was stone-built and just breathing in made you feel French (unlike the school I went to, where I was over-dressed and the unwelcome recipient of young, male, French hormones.) I walked past the ex-vineyard every day and was amazed that such a large space of fertile ground in an inhabited area was still vacant. We're like the Japanese - small island, large population. We'll build anywhere that's big enough for a mouse to fart in. Anyway I couldn't find the photo. So ignore the above __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	It always reminded me of the Palouse. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

05-07-2013, 05:26 AM	#2
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	I see the vines. Where are the yards?

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ToastyOhs Discontinued Breakfast Food Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Coastal Maine, USA Posts: 58	The Windows desktop background, Bliss, is actually a vineyard out in California that was was cleared out. (some sort of blight, as I recall) The hillside is now covered in vines again.

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