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Posts Tagged: vines


Posts Tagged ‘vines’

Thursday, May 30th, 2019

The Vines will be carrying

Sunday, May 12th, 2013

The Red Earth, the Green Grass of Home

close to Friedelsheim, Rhineland-Palatia

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

The vines sleep and wait

near Eguisheim in the Alsace

near Eguisheim in the Alsace

Some of my conversational French is a bit rusty, but I found that I can totally talk to people about wine. Wine! Not something you talk about too often … except, as it turns out, in the Alsace and the Cote d’Or you kind of totally do.

At least with the local vigneronnes and vignerons, and I met more of them than I expected. Right now they (and their families and hired hands and workers etc) are busy cutting the vines. Sometimes the cut vines are burned right behind the cutters, in a so-called “brouette” (basically a wheeled, movable giant open metal can which can withstand fire), and so trails of smoke can be observed in vineyard after vineyard, and the air along them smells faintly of smoke (which was the phenomenon that led me to investiagate it). Sometimes, the brouettes have holes in the bottom, and so that the burnt ash can fall out and comes to rest between the vine rows. And the burning/smoke is also a protection against vine diseases. So I learned – and now you know, too. :-)

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Wine on the vine

Friday, November 11th, 2011

If here you fall asleep, and dream…


…what dreams may come?

 

This is my reply for the challenge to take a photo “from another angle.”