Billy Joel and the Wine Tastings

Forget water torture- you want to break someone, cover them in bug bites. I swear to god I am going to go mad. Stark raving mad. 

I tried to go for a walk this morning. These are the two pictures I took before the deer flies sent me running for the house. The one above is the play cabin my grandfather built for us when I was little. It's so tight and dry in there we could have slept in it if we had wanted to. I think we did one night. It was long enough ago I don't remember clearly. 

The way is clear, the light is good, I have no fear nor no one should...

This morning we...did nothing. Nothing.

It.

Was.

GLORIOUS.

And you all know how incapable I generally am of lazing about and doing nothing. Well guess what people, TODAY I DID. 

Until about 1:00, when we all piled into the car to go wine tasting!

All of the places in this area are this cute. I love it.

Our first stop was Boathouse Vineyards in Leland,which was bright, sunny, and beautifully appointed. Our friendly if a little awkward sommelier was attentive and informative, and we had a great time tasting and testing delicious wines. I found a winner I liked here called "Knot too sweet", a medium white. 

Dorks. But very classy and sophisticated dorks. 

I killed off one of the bottles, and the sommelier gave me the cork as a souvenir. 

Note to friends- as it turns out, I don't much like reds, but I like medium sweet whites and roses. 

Next we went to a really cool little thrift shop where mom and I picked up some fun clothes, and then we moseyed on to a really stunning winery, stable and inn called Black Star Farms.

Gorgeous, no? The inside was too. 

Hmm, how many have you had Leigh?
So many.

I wasn't as impressed with the wines there, but we had a lot of fun and ate just a silly amount of oyster crackers. We did have one more stop to make on the way home though...

And there was pie. 

Beautiful, glorious pie. 

And some Catan, which mom won handily twice much to the bafflement of my father and I who almost gave up on logic, reason, tactic and strategy as ways to win at games. Seriously, the woman has all the luck.

And now I will hunker down on the couch to get some shut eye while the world trundles on around me. Unfortunately, we're here too early for the Leonid shower, but the stars out here in the woods away from the world are even brighter and more stunning than I remember them. They make me think of late night walks in Shawnigan Lake, re-learning the constellations on a quiet road. There is a skylight above my bed in the loft- I fall asleep watching the celestial dance above my head, and think my deep thoughts. 

Until the morrow.