Janvier 2008 (1)

These are photos from January 2008 — I can't believe that was 15 years ago. It's a long and winding road... that runs through the vineyard. I wonder how many times I've walked it. Hundreds, I'm sure, although I seldom walk all the way out to the end of the dirt road any more.

   
The photo on the left above is looking west toward the end of the dirt road that starts 1.22 kilometers (4,000 ft.) to the east at our house. The vineyard continues for another mile or so, with a paved road running through that western section.

The elevation rises more than 50 feet as you walk west from our house to the end of the dirt road, according to Google Earth. Above is a view looking east toward our hamlet from the point of highest elevation.

    From the time we came to live here until a couple of years ago, we had four apple trees in our back yard, and two more just outside our back gate. We put thousands of apples in piles to compost every winter. We've also made a lot of apple sauce, apple tarts, apple crumbles, and apple cobblers over the years.