Spent a family Thanksgiving up in Boonville, Anderson Valley with Sam and Angela Schillace. As ever, the locality is, for me, one of few fragile traces of somewhat indeterminate and agricultural pasts, juxtaposed with major investment in business futures. An old (cultivated) apple tree in the nearby field, railway carriages in the town converted to…
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Anderson Valley
Up from Boonville. An old apple tree. Few are now left. The valley is turning from fruit trees and sheep farming to Pinot Noir. We heard that our friends at Lazy Creek Vineyards, an idyllic spot near Philo, have just been bought by a large Nevada-based corporation. See also a gallery of images at –…
Rotterdam
Westmalle Tripel – the classic. Here in De Witte Aap – a rather fine bar in Rotterdam. Attending the International Advisory Board for the Mayor of Rotterdam – Link
CILVRNVM, Hadrian's Wall
Chesters Roman Fort, Cilurnum. Northumberland UK
Heavenfield
Deniseburna near Hefenfelth on Hadrian’s Wall. 633 or 634. Oswald of Bernicia met and defeated in battle Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd. (Polaroid transfer)
Shadforth, Durham UK
Dawn. For Christina Unwin and Richard Hingley.
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