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Old 05-07-2013, 12:31 AM   #1
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May 6, 2013 - Vineyards



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Old 05-07-2013, 05:26 AM   #2
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I see the vines. Where are the yards?
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Old 05-07-2013, 07:46 AM   #3
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I see the vines. Where are the yards?
Unit of measurement - there's yards and yards o them vines.
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Old 05-07-2013, 08:24 AM   #4
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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
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Old 05-07-2013, 09:05 AM   #5
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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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Old 05-09-2013, 08:58 AM   #6
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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
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Old 05-15-2013, 10:49 AM   #7
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It always reminded me of the Palouse.
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