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April 27, 2009

Vineyard In the Sun

Filed under: East End by Bill @ 8:23 pm

On a trip to Southold to visit my mom on this very warm weekend past, I saw this small, recently pruned Long Island vineyard waiting to bloom.

This is the same vineyard I saw in January covered with snow. The difference between then and now is amazing.

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This is how it looked in January. Cold and gnarly.

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And now in April at least the grass is green and the vines are pruned.

vineyard-spring-buds
Buds, but no leaves yet

Give it a week or so and I’ll bet there’ll be leaves on these vines.

Here’s to the warm weather!

1 Comment »

  1. [...] that vineyard I showed you last week? Well, bud break is in full swing there now. The leaves are small, but they’ll grow like mad [...]

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