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Just a quick update about my latent eye condition, which affects both of my eyes: I have iritis, which is an inflammation of the iris. Both eyes are rather swollen, too, which has caused each iris to “stick to” the cornea, the symptoms being what I can best describe as a […]

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Sometime yesterday my eyes started to get really painful, red, and swollen - both of them. Not sure what bug I got, but I can’t read or drive like this. So, as much as I had intended to write today about the wineries I visited in Paso Robles this past weekend, I’m […]

Tempting Spring on a Paso Robles winehiking weekend
Paso Robles offers many fine wine-tasting experiences. And yet it’s the area’s hiking trails that can round out a visit and boast a High Gorgeosity Factor (HGF).
(tags: wine tasting hiking winehiking paso robles vacation qpr winehiker californiawinehikes.com cerro alto montana de oro)

 
These last four days have been marvelous. Marvelous, mind you, not because I chose to forsake blogging for four days, but because it simply was marvelous to revel in all that Paso Robles and the surrounding community offers in the way of beautiful hikes, bountiful wineries, and spectacular countryside.
Technically it is still Winter. Yet with […]

Wine consumers: we’re not normal, but we’re sexy
Wow. I always knew I wasnt quite normal. Now that there’s Project Genome, its nice to finally know why.
(tags: wine consumer producer industry research normal sexy winehiker californiawinehikes.com)

American Wine Blog Awards winner to be announced next week
The window for voting in Tom Wark’s inaugural American Wine Blog Awards […]

   
The window for voting in the inaugural American Wine Blog Awards, championed by Tom Wark’s Fermentation blog, is about to close.  So, dear oenoblogophile, if you haven’t voted yet for your favorite wine blogger who’s been nominated in any of seven categories, you only have until tomorrow, so do scoot on over to Tom’s blog to vote […]

Promoting environmental awareness usually ends up dividing the world into two camps - environmentalists that want to save the world, pitted against huge corporations that want to conquer it. Can the twain ever meet? Yes, says Interface founder Ray Anderson.
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According to an article in Tuesday’s Wine Industry Report from Fine Wine Press, “If you’ve had wine in the last seven days and if you bought a bottle of wine priced at over $15 in the last three months, if you have more than 18 bottles in your house at any given moment, and if […]

The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less
Rather Earthcentric, but get out your Funk & Wagnall’s for this gem.
(tags: earth education cool writing astronomy differentiation evolution star world universe)

Tastings.com
The Beverage Testing Institute: Like what you drink, drink what you like.
(tags: drink food magazine reference wine review tasting)

On love, wine, and being a naturalist
A […]

 
American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs once wrote:
“A sense of the power and mystery of Nature shall spring up as fully in one’s heart after he has made the circuit of his own field as after returning from a voyage ’round the world.”
That statement sure rings true with me. I can hike the same trail over […]