Mar 20 2024
Cheers
Dad’s birthday weekend dawned sunny and surprisingly warm. It was the first really nice day of the year, and especially welcome after what seemed like a pretty tough winter, full of storms, power outages, and cold temperatures.
It happened that our friend Monica was hosting a wine tasting at a lovely inn in the Village:
Because this town so is small – sometimes, its teeniness can still surprise me – the inn used to belong to my friend Richard (the local one, not the San Francisco one*), but I hadn’t been there since the current owners took it over.
We were greeted graciously by Monica and the couple who I later learned owned the inn, and supplied with a glass of wine to go with an exquisite charcuterie platter:
I don’t think I had ever seen a salami rose before.
We headed to the beautiful garden:
which had a charming gazebo:
and enjoyed the wine and the sunshine and the view. We toasted Dad as he had asked us to, long ago: “The old man wasn’t so bad.” He wasn’t. And he would have loved to sit in the garden with us and feel the sun while enjoying a glass of wine. At least we have the memories, and he is always in our hearts.
*Though SF Richard is an older friend in terms of years of friendship, local Richard is older in years.
FIVE YEARS AGO: Celebrating Dad’s birthday.
TEN YEARS AGO: Enjoying time with friends.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO: The battle of the boxes.
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