Photo Share: March 4 – 16

photosharebuttonPhoto Share is my personal replacement for Weekly Winners, since that link exchange is no longer happening. It’s just my own challenge to take great photos through the week, as it gives me a venue to share some of them on this blog. Consider it my own little P.S. on the week before.

Photos this week taken with my Sony DSLR A230. Edited using Lightroom 3… or using my Droid Razr and Instagram. You can probably figure out which is which.

114: Chip Esten with the Time Jumpers
Let me just say this. Chip Esten (aka Deacon on ABC’s “Nashville”) is as good looking in person as he is on TV.

116: Printer's Alley
Printer’s Alley

117: Cucumber Martini
Cucumber Martini. Absolutely incredible.

119: Black bulbs
Just a little bit of light.

120: Southwest Pretzels
Southwest Pretzels

121: Sunshine, you're the best time
Sunshine, you’re the best time. I ever, ever had…

Bowl of beads
Bowl of beads

Four quarters in a dollar
Spare change

122: Crack open a book
Crack open a book

Tomato
Tomato. No creative caption to be had.

125: Lighting the way
Lighting the way.

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#DrinkUpLinkUp — Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Wine

I’ve missed out on #DrinkUpLinkUp the last few weeks due to just not getting to drink much. Three weeks on antibiotics will do that to you. Then once I could drink again, I didn’t have much opportunity to drink anything new. But that finally changed last week.

I had:

 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Wine

Yup. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend wine from Miranda Lambert. Well, rather, Red 55 Winery.

Some friends had Miranda Lambert wine awhile back and immediately I went, “HOWDOIGETTHATIMUSTHAVEITRIGHTNOW!”

Well, that was an issue living in Tennessee, when it can only be bought in Texas. Bummer! But, while at a liquor store in my little home town… there it was. And there it went to the register to go home with me.

There are 7 varieties of Red 55 wines, and I opted to start with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

The description from their website:

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Sweet White Table Wine

An alluring radiant wine bears overtones of ripe pears, honey, and golden raisins. Lusciously aromatic it is perfect for those who prefer the sweeter things in life. It is so deliciously perfumed, it has been teased as dessert in a bottle! Just like a Crazy Ex, you’ll be seduced over and over by this charmer. So mild it can be served with fruit, light cheeses, sorbets and other light desserts, it is also delightful with Sunday brunch on the patio, fruit-glazed chicken dishes and spicy Asian cuisines. Serve chilled.

 A friend told me it wasn’t her favorite, so I’ll be curious to try the other wines… because I actually REALLY liked this wine. Like. A lot. As in went-to-bed-very-buzzed-on-it like.

DEFINITELY a dessert in a bottle. A very sweet wine, its flavor lingers on the palate long after you’ve finished drinking it. I happened to actually have it with cheese the night I drank it, and it paired amazingly.

 118: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Wine

So, if you ever find yourself in Texas and wanting a different wine to try… give this one a shot. Dessert in a bottle? As Miranda would probably say, “Hell yeah!”

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