More than a few odd features can be found among tasting rooms and grape vines.
Not all of the wineries we visited allowed dogs in the tasting room, not even little two pound dogs, so on the odd occasion we made the best of it and did our wine tasting surrounded by the abundance of floral beauty to be found among the grape vines.
This face is nearly covered in the bark from the tree, someone had plenty of vision to add it to the tree a long time ago.
Macro shot of some of the flowers decorating the tasting building at one of the wineries we visited.
This particular winery had a thing for faces, they were in the most amazing places.
There wasn't a frog to be found among these lily pads, however later in the day a fairly large snake made an appearance and startled the photographer, who didn't get a very good shot of the critter.
This lone tree on the hillside just begged for the attention of a photographer.
Barrels stored in a shed near the winery's tasting room.
This festive outdoor space was decorated with inverted parasols offering a splash of color.
These fragile blooms look even more delicate in contrast to the metal fence behind them.
/amador wine country/june 2012
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