portrait

i love where i live. let me type that again: this area of the world rocks. seriously, where can you fall asleep gazing out over the vineyards and see the big dipper from your pillow while the owls sing to each other? i was in the grocery store yesterday when my eye caught "oregon wine country" on the front of a magazine "portrait" featuring...ta ha: dundee. now, when i first moved here, people looked at me quizzically, "why would you want to live all the way out there?!" then, they come to visit. it is set, i humbly note, to be the next napa valley. what other appelation would boast being able to type to the winemaker featured in said article and have them actually write back to you? yes, it's true. plus, it's summer. every day out of school my world gets a little bigger, my powers of observation more acute. for instance, i had time to note that we have a family of baby bunnies living beneath the garden shed. i watch the one that seems most often to venture to the blackberries and named him "petrie". it's gotten so i look for him every morning while i'm picking fresh strawberries. yes, quite simply, this is a portrait of a woman in love with where she lives.

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