We wandered downtown this morning and were greeted by dense fog that in a miracle of physics and sunlight, evaporated before my eyes - literally in minutes if not seconds. We learned the difference between fog and mist from one of our customers (it is based on visibility being less than 1/2 a mile or kilometer or something) and it gave us some inspiration for our tasting.
Back in the 1950s there was a television show that had, as part of the opening sequence, a scene along the docks in San Francisco - famous for its fog. Of course the TV was black and white so all things were basically shades of grey but the image is pretty vivid still, half a century plus later. The show was after Paladin and Gunsmoke and Broderick Crawford in Highway Patrol....stuck in there somewhere.
When down at the docks with the sun finally burning off the fog, a man and his son were standing, fishing poles in hand ready to get into that little boat and venture out a bit in search of whatever is passing through the bay at this time of year. They had to wait until they could see for reasons of safety alone but all of us, at one time or another, have been out in the clear and had the fog descend or rise - whatever the case - and cut us off from our surroundings. The father did a great job of explaining fog but to an eight year old, the science was lost in the misery of not being able to fish as he was sure they were there and lunkers to boot.
See you on Saturday.
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