"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." Saint Francis De Sales

Friday, November 10, 2017

Travels, Wine & Ampersand



1. Dee and I were traveling with our friends Pam and Tony last week. Attended the LaRue wedding in Hadley, MA then headed to Buffalo, NY to visit family. My nephew Chris and his wife Adrienne provided a place for us to stay while we were there. We enjoyed their hospitality,  listen to ghost stores on halloween night and learned about Adrian's school, Nardin Academy. 


2. In Massachusetts, we visited Mineral Hills Winery. Did some wine tasting and bought wine and gift items. Tony had Sue autograph the wine bottles. It was the first time anyone had made such a request. 

Photo By Dee
Photo By Me

3. Canada has some great wineries along Lake Ontario. We showed Pam and Tony Niagara Falls then drove to “Niagara On The Lake.” In addition to some shopping, we had lunch at Caroline Cellars Winery and completed some wine tasting there. Keeping with Tony’s new wine tradition, we had Linda sign our wine bottles.

Photo By Me
4. Season 5, of the History Channel series Vikings, starts November 29th.

Bjorn, Lagertha & Ragnar (Season 2 Episode 1)

5. Our son Eric sent me some information on the “History of the Ampersand.” A great article.

“As with a lot of aspects of typography, the history of the ampersand begins with our triumphant and progressive friends, the Ancient Romans.

Roman scribes would write in cursive so as to increase the speed of their transcription, often combining letters into one form to save time while also increasing legibility, where certain characters overlap in a visually discordant mannerthis was the birth of the ligature. The ampersand is simply a ligature of the letters E and T (et being the latin word for and).” 


6. "The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow."           Black Hawk

7. Willie Nelson - “On the Road Again.”   




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