Jul 19 2008
Fashion at Tanglewood
Archive for the tag 'Berkshires'
Jul 09 2008
Rush 2008
I was dragged to the Rush concert at Saratoga NY - SPAC.. A close mind person like me, of course I couldn’t wait for it to finish. One thing I was impressed with was their punctuality. Eight o’clock on the ticket, 8 o’clock they showed up on stage.
It’s their intercontinental tour promoting their latest album, [...]
Jul 08 2008
The road hazard
Driving home from the Berkshires on the scenic Taconic Parkway, or Route 66 as the locals call it. Golfer got a ticket, from the town of Ghent. He was doing 74 on a 55 speeding zone. Taconic Pky is very pretty with part of it being winding, which the 55 state limit warrants it. But part [...]
May 26 2008
Don’t Bother With the Hotel Pool
Open water swimming isn’t my cup of tea ever since I switched to free style from breast stroke. There’s little rock or tiny island off the Repulse Bay in Hong Kong that we used to swim to. The water in HK is crystal clear, so regardless of company or not, I’d go. But when the water turns to muddy, [...]
Feb 24 2008
Sterling vineyards
Tanglewood 1997
Peter Newton (1926-2008), a Brit, the founder of this vineyard had just passed away. He’s credited with putting the vocabulary of Merlot and Chardonnay into ordinary Americans who otherwise only knew wine as red and white. We falling in love with Sterling’s Chardonnay at the Lexon when we attended the BSO at Tanglewood that summer [...]