This is the new shoot on a vine. Leaves will follow. Then blooms. Then grapes. Then WINE.
Linked to Six Word Saturday. More posts with six word titles and possibly some explanation can be found here.
Tag: Wein
Liquid gold
A fountain running with liquid gold. It may be a fairy tale. Unless it is poured in glasses. Cheers! Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge: Liquid.
Wine time
It may be the first Sunday of Advent but I am not quite ready to let go of autumn. Lines. Rows and rows of growing wine – Riesling, Grauburgunder, Gewürztraminer, Merlot, Shiraz … I love them all. PS: Today’s Oxford Dicitionary’s Word of the Day is bibulous, aka: excessively fond of alcoholic beverages 😉
For One Word Sunday: lines. More lineage can be found here.
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
A quote from Omar Khayyam.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things people grow.
For more things people grow, click here.
A zest for life
I seem to find these more traditional murals around here.
This one – from the old part of town of “Newtown an der Weinstraße” in Rhineland Pallatium, Germany – is called “Phantastische Allegorie zu Neustadt und der Lebensfreude” (Phantastic allegorie about Neustadt and zest for life). It was created by Werner Holz for H. Grübius (both names appear in the picture). I’m not sure about the date, I believe I can read 1990something, the artist died in 1991.
More Monday Murals can be found here.
Press them to ripeness
The ripe grapes, soon to be made into wine, embody autumn for me. The first sweet grape must is being sold in open bottles (since the bottles would explode if they were firmely corked), soon to turn cloudy when fermentation sets in. I love it at all the different stages before it is left to mature under the watchful eye of vintners. The German term for harvesting grapes is actually “herbsten” which is related to “Herbst”, meaning autumn or fall.
The title is taken from one of the most famous poems about autumn in German, by Rainer Maria Rilke:
Befiel den letzten Früchten voll zu sein;
gib ihnen noch zwei südlichere Tage,
dränge sie zur Vollendung hin und jage
die letzte Süße in den schweren Wein.
Command the last fruits to be ripe;
Grant them another two more southern days,
Press them to ripeness, and with power
Drive final sweetness to the heavy grape.
for the A Photo a Week Challenge: Signs of fall
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