Had lunch with a friend today - grilled shrimp with a mango salsa - yum, and I tried a white wine that I had tried awhile ago but had forgotten - a Viognier - vee-oh nyay- great! Low acid and smelled flowery, it was a California wine but I understand the French have their own version, from some of the oldest vines in France. It smelled and tasted quite peachy and with lime. Loved it with the shrimp. - It's a refreshing taste but I am told the quality can really vary. So avoid the Caifornia "oakey tasting" ones. If you have the big bucks go for the ones made in the Condrieu region of France. Or Chateau-Grillet in the Rhone region, --- oh, oh, to win a lottery!!
Emily Dickinson
From cocoon forth a butterfly
As lady from her door
Emerged—a summer afternoon—
Repairing everywhere,
Without design, that I could trace,
Except to stray abroad
On miscellaneous enterprise
The clovers understood.
Her pretty parasol was seen
Contracting in a field
Where men made hay, then struggling hard
With an opposing cloud,
Where parties, phantom as herself,
To Nowhere seemed to go
In purposeless circumference,
As ’t were a tropic show.
And notwithstanding bee that worked,
And flower that zealous blew,
This audience of idleness
Disdained them, from the sky,
Till sundown crept, a steady tide,
And men that made the hay,
And afternoon, and butterfly,
Extinguished in its sea.
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