Lunch in the Vineyard

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. - Marcus Aurelius

Restaurant at the vineyard - Tango art by Leanne Prussing

An impromptu lunch today in the vineyard... It was a gorgeous sunny day, and we didn't actually intend to laze in the sun over lunch at a lovely restaurant - but that's where we ended up. The days are so gorgeous at present warm as toast and this spot was a great one to stop at for lunch.

Cozy chairs,
a sundrenched deck,
beckon us to rest.
Lightly
a bird arrives
to join us -
and then another,
waiting...
hinting at a request.
Light streaming,
creating rainbows,
the vineyard rests,
with us.

Visitors offering to help out with lunch

Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. ~ Hugh Macmillan, "Rejuvenescence," The Ministry of Nature, 1871

Quote from quotegarden.com