Wine and Sand

A friend came in all agog after finding the 1941 movie "Blood and Sand" at a yard sale.  Matador becomes famous. Leaves wife for temptress....etc. Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth et all....

When we got him quieted down and made him promise to lend it to us, of course that encounter got our little heads to thinking. We were thinking about sand..not bullfight sand...but sand and all that takes place on it.  How epic things like bullfights and beach picnics, solitude and sand castles act like silverware on that grainy tabletop.

We kept musing about this and were talking to a customer about it later yesterday afternoon.  He had just been to the post office and some pictures from over Easter weekend had arrived so, to humor him, we looked at his prize collection. We found one we really liked and he lent it to us because it was everything good that we think of with "sand" and made a real connection to our business - mostly that of wine.  The picture (above) is his and we spent some time thinking of a suitable caption for it. "How about a nice crisp Chablis?" was one.  "Do you have crackers for the Bree?" or "Hope mom got some decent wine for dinner!" were a few more.

What the picture is about, to us, is conversation. About taking a minute and talking to someone. That can be done over a sand castle at age 4 or over a glass of something nice (from our shop of course) long about sunset after a hard day or any day for that matter. Wine and sand are the tabletops in the kitchen, the park bench, the chairs in the back yard.

We decided that at our tasting this Saturday, we were going to put that picture on the counter and ask you to caption it. No prize for "best". Just your wit and wisdom.  Winning thought gets a smile.