these leaves spent last summer soaking up the mediterranean sun in order to help grow some wine grapes that we will be tasting, in fermented form, sometime this next summer. then they spent the early fall turing these delicious shades of olive green. we are a house divided. steve would gladly give up these hues for a glass of this summer’s wine. i would gladly abstain from a glass of wine or two, in order to luxuriate in these hues.

dried grape leaves

autignac, france