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Showing posts with label booze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label booze. Show all posts

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Pasta Rolling Action Shots

 pasta rolling with team fun



Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Banana Maple Froyo


Banana pancakes were the inspiration. Frozen bananas, cinnamon, maple syrup, "cinnamon whiskey" for the booze anti-freeze properties. Kinda funny, for Sara's going away party our friend Nicole got a pinata and filled it with all manner of things, including those little airplane-sized bottles of booze.

2c yogurt
1/2 c maple syrup
3 frozen bananas
cinnamon
salt
~1T cinnamon whiskey

stickblend freeze stickblend

Monday, June 23, 2014

New Nikkor Macro lens




donut peaches
purple peruvian pepper

morning dew
cosmo

Monday, March 17, 2014

Qupe library tasting

As a wine club perk Qupe did a tasting of 2 different vintages for a couple of their wines, so you could see the effect of aging and different weather and stuff. Erin and Charlie came along and it was great fun. Also, we saw a coyote on the way in and a bobcat on the way out! Full album here.

Bob the Qupe vintner
playing around, not sure which one I like more


it was at the winery they share with Au Bon Climat
Thomas and Sara at the $$ Syrah station
chit chatting with the 16mm fisheye

winery pooch. he gets around
they were having a fruit fly out break
Elvis was still in the building
outside scenery

we say him on the way back on the Foxen Canyon rd

Qupe library tasting macros

 playin' around with the 105mm macro



Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Qupe / Au Bon Climat Open House

We're in the Qupe (Chumash for Poppy) wine club. One of the perks are the biannual open houses at the winery/vineyard that Qupe shares with Au Bon Climat. We went in the spring, but I didn't take a camera, this time I was prepared. Full album here. I had a great time with the camera, interesting shapes a plenty. Food was good, wine was good.
 silhouette
 rack focus action


 we had lunch in the vineyard


winery mascot, he covered alot of ground

Monday, April 15, 2013

Figueroa Mountain, April 2013

We went up Figueroa Mountain this weekend. Went up the west side, spent the night at Figueroa campground, went down the east side, then went in to Los Olivos for wine tasting at Qupe. Nice weekend.Full album here.
we went for the flowers, and the green new leaves on the oaks



from the lookout at the top of the mountain

ladybugs not flying away home



fun with the 16mm nikkor

she got a tick, I got a nice photo
Poppies + lupine = traffic jam

rack focus

really sweet pull-off/view point, 16mm

more fun with the 16mm


cows, greenness, oaks along Alisal rd.