Thanks to my buddy Eric Cloutier for this one.

I am not much of a beer drinker, but this place blew me away. We tried the tasting and they were all really delicious. Even the wine was good too. Too bad you can only drink these micobrews in Santa Rosa, CA.

 

love these funny coasters!

Chris Thorpe, the owner of Adastra Vineyards

everything tasted so good, so we joined their wine club…

their healthy mossy reservoir reminded me of Claude Monet

lovely organic vegetable gardens at Lynmar Estate

blooming kale flowers

gorgeous glass walled wine cellar at Lynmar Estate

chair made entirely of used corks

…silly me, I packed my bathing suit, I should have packed my winter hat.  It was freezing!

perfect weather for some Spud Point crab chowda!

I have been practicing Chinese cuisine with the help of my new cookbook “Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking” by Fuchsia Dunlop. So far every recipe has been quite easy to manage and the results have been great.

Oooh I just love a good used bookstore. I can spend hours getting lost in one. We found pretty much one of the best ones I have ever been to, in Santa Rosa, California. Treehorn Books had just the right combination of fine literature  and  many obscure books on wine and other delicious hedonistic California activities.

…and I met this lovely lady

pretty miniature paper dollhouses hung in the windows too