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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Books on Napa Valley Lifestyle

Books on Beauty, Vineyards, Lifestyle, Gardens, Botanical Lavender, Mustard, Gardening in and around Napa Valley

Seasons of the Vineyard
by Carolyn Dille, Margrit Biever Mondavi, Robert Mondavi
Gardens of the Wine Country

by Molly Chappellet, Richard Tracy (Contributor)

Hardcover: 204 pages. 1998.

The Napa Valley is a famous vintner's paradise, with its long, warm summers and mild winters. Naturally, this also makes it a gardener's paradise, and longtime Napa winery owner Molly Chappellet has an intimate knowledge of each nook and cranny of this horticultural Eden. Napa Valley's oldest gardens were planted around 1860, at about the same time grapevines were introduced to the region, and though there are only a handful of these, their enormous oaks and antique roses perfectly fit the image of old Napa homesteads. The gardens at Schramsberg, Beaulieu, Spottswoode, Krug, and the Niebaum estate (now owned by Francis and Eleanor Coppola), to drop a few well-known winery names, fall into this category.

Chappellet and her collaborator, Richard Tracy, define "new gardens" as those developed since 1960, some by the
enthusiastic new winemakers who brought new life to the Napa region. These gardens are numerous, breathtakingly
beautiful, and have apparently provided abundant employment to a number of talented landscape designers over the past
three decades. In many cases, a heroic amount of work was done to tame, for example, a rocky hillside into a proper
Mediterranean-style villa garden, and Chappellet and Tracy note the details down to the individual plant names. The
numerous color photographs, clearly often taken at daybreak and just before sunset,
show off the calm, lush gardens to perfection. - Amazon.com

Beautiful Gardens Of The Wine Country

by Jennifer Barry, Robert Holmes, Mimi Luebbermann

Beautiful Wineries Of The Wine Country

Jennifer Barry, Charles O'Rear, Thom Elkjer

Napa Valley Style

by Kathryn Masson

Sonoma Valley Style : At Home in California's Wine Country

by Kathryn Masson, Steven Brooke

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Napa Valley in Four Seasons Photography DVD with Flamenco Music

Wine Country in Four Seasons Atmospheric Art -- Set to Flamenco Music

Starring: Grapes & Landscapes Director: Sandra Cannon, SFBAYIMAGES.com Format: DVD

Wine Country in Four Seasons

Atmospheric Art for creating background ambience.

Digital version of the coffee table photography book

DESCRIPTION:

Wine Country in Four Seasons
Four season imagery from the Napa Valley and other Northern California Wine Country Regions. Photography by Sandra Cannon, an award winning photographer, who has captured the wine country in four seasons including the spring mustard bloom, the fall harvest, turning leaf in autumn, sculpture like winter vines, and the brazen full swing summer months. The sweeping landscapes are set to a Flamenco Soundtrack. Flamenco embodies a complex musical and cultural tradition, much like winemaking itself.

The Art of Atmosphere. Create the background. Revisit the wine country, put it on and Relax.

DETAILS:

Title: Wine Country in Four Season
Description: Sweeping Landscapes to remember the wine country by.
Length: 30 minutes.
Content: 116 photography images at 15 second intervals, blunt cut.
Format: High Resolution Photography 1920 by 1080 pixels.
Sound: Rich Flamenco Music.
Your DVD will not have watermarks or titles other then the title cards, but will have a very small copyright notice..
DVD plays on any DVD player. DVD technology is not HD technology but it will play nicely on an HDTV.

Uses for SFBAYIMAGES.com atmospheric art high definiton photography DVDs:
Digital Souvenir Gifts
Green Coffee Table Book
Hotel Lobbies + Rooms
Corporate Environments
Hi Impact Corporate Lobby Screens
Retail, Hospitality + Restaurants
Home relaxing or entertaining.
Work Place
Background
Parties
Atmospheric Art
Create Ambience

Wine Country in Four Seasons Atmospheric Art

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