A Walk In The Vineyards

Cloudy and cool today. High about 70 F.

We pretty much did nothing today, except take a walk in the vineyards north of B's place. Found a small Heuriger that was open...sat down and we drank a grape juice mixed with sparkling water.

What we saw, below. (Click on pics to enlarge)

An old wine press at the entrance to the Heuriger.

Walking along, we saw a bunch of beehives in a small field.
A closeup of Hive #2. Note bees, and garden gnome. There were about ten hives in all.

Check out this very cool tiled house! A creek runs alongside the path to the vineyards.
Across the creek is a wooden bridge leading to a small compound where some sort of
Zen Buddhist dude lives---there are prayer flags everywhere, a tree house, a water wheel that spins a prayer wheel, etc. There are a few small buildings on the property.
We think this is new--his house?

If you take the long looping road you come up behind the guy's land.
I zoomed in to get this pic of the top and rear of the guy's house.
I think my buddy, the noted Zen Man MCARP, should have a place like this.

Vineyards. Vienna. A non-shitty vista.

Why don't they build modern houses like this in Oklahoma,
instead of the shit we usually build?

We came to a vineyard with plaques on the vines---each with the name of someone who had sponsored a vine, I guess. Actors, bigshots in the Catholic church, royalty from different countries, sports figures. Here we have the Bill Clinton grapevine. Looks more or less healthy to me.

Here's the Barack Obama vine. Somewhat younger, but still with good leaves, etc.

Huh. The George W. Bush vine doesn't have any leaves on it, and looks kind of stunted. WTF?