What do you do after the meeting?
Well you know that LGM travels to Oregon every month or so to meet with our crack development team at OpenSourery. But we’re not the types to fly in, meet, and fly out. So what do you do after the meeting?
Well, this last time, after we met and got the User Interface redesign for Pronetos all spec’d out, Uncle Wyatt and I went to see the Body Worlds 3 exhibit at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. WOW! Tell me, when was the last time you saw a camel ‘plasticized’ - that is basically cut open and frozen in plastic? The creator of the exhibit invented this technique where he takes human cadavers and fills the veins and organs with plastic resin - essentially freezing them in their last state. Anyway, they control the images pretty tightly, but take a look at the previous link I included to see what this exhibit looks like.
After that we had to pick up the girls, get some rest and get ready for wine country!
Earlier in the year, Carol and I determined to buy every Yamhill County (OR) Pinot Noir we could find in preparation for an eventual tour of the Willamette Valley wine country. While we might have only tasted a few of the more readily available Pinots here in Idaho, I’d say we probably got through 50 on this trip. Before I forget, here are places we visited:
WOW! And we tasted a wine at lunch as well!
I’ll save the tasting notes for another time. I will stick some pics and captions in here though - I’ve got to get ready to go to Seattle - not on business this time, but that is coming soon enough.
Caption: Yes, you Francophiles, we make wine here too. And it rules.
This is the Bella Vida Vineyard, looking south. The Erath Winery would be just to the East. The Bella Vida Vineyards is a certified sustainable vineyard, and one of the best looking and most picturesque of all the vineyards in Oregon (IMHO). They grow incredible Pinot Noir grapes. They then have three different wine makers make the grapes into Pinot Noirs which Bella Vida then sells as a winemaker’s series. This was by far my favorite vineyard - three incredible Pinots - all very different (yes, we bought them all).
Great photo of Uncle Wyatt and Carol at the Tasting Room in Carlton. This was our last stop of the day, and we squeezed in another flight of 10 wines. What a trooper Carol was! She looks happy doesn’t she?