Hi! Hope you all had a terrific 4th of July holiday weekend! I had so much fun…My husband & I did a day trip on the 4th where we took a long drive down a scenic highway along the Mississippi river and stopped along the way wherever we felt like. We went with his brother & his wife. It was a rare treat to be able to spend the entire day with them.
We saw lots of pretty small Minnesota towns & some historic spots & places where the river was still very flooded from the awful storms our state has had last month. Ate at great places & one of my favorite parts was where we discovered the fantastic Elmaro Vineyard in Trempealeau, Wi as we were driving home on the Wisconsin side of the river. We did a wine tasting outdoors in view of their gorgeous vineyard. So much fun, yet so relaxing! We brought back 3 bottles of delicious wine to enjoy later. Here’s a couple photos of the Elmaro vineyard…
together, speeding by, they look like rolling parallel waves then, one by one, they open up into corridors of yellow and green. old, bare-branches twisted wildly in the wintry sun.
Swallowing, I slid my eyes over the damp, slightly curly locks at the back of his head and the damp fabric of his collar, over the rhythmic movement of his arms with protruding branches of veins, over the monstrously regular profile outlined by the sky when he turned, answering another Hermione’s question. Here it is - a hellish cauldron, in which I have been boiling for a month and a half.
