Hiding In Plain Sight
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 11:58PM I am a responsible driver and a great car DJ! Turns out, I am good at driving drunk people around Napa Valley, and play mediation music while they are zoning into their drunk minds during the transport to yet another wine tasting room. Today, I had the pleasure to drive three heavy drinkers and a (non-drinking) dog.
Here is a photo of Nat, Jon, and me... reflected off of a chrome trash can at Dean De Luca in Saint Helena. Which reminds me... I have done this before at the very same location. That makes it a tradition! I am becoming a trash-can fine-art photographer!
The morbidly obese dog in the below picture is Trixie Regusci. Her claim to fame is that she was featured in a book called Winery Dogs of Napa Valley. I met Trixie for the first time five years ago. A photo of me petting Trixie is from 2006. As you can see, she was not this fat back then.
Trixie spends her day in search of crumbs and other food bits around the tasting room and the picnic area. She has a very demanding hungry look, and it seems to be working on the visitors who seem to not notice the big "PLEASE DON'T FEED ME" label on her collar. Even though most dogs in the world would be jealous of her luxury life, we all felt bad for little Trixie today.
When people are drinking and you are not... well... you walk around, look at stuff, and take pictures.
Now onto the best part of the day. Muir Woods National Monument is basically a bunch of "stay on the trail" signs next to a bunch of prehistoric looking redwood trees. Walking through the park gives you a creepy feeling of being in a different era of the past. You expect to see giant dinosaurs strut right by you. It was getting dark, which only boosted the creepy feeling and our imagination. Our favorite story included an attack by an army of little evil elves with little evil bows and arrows.
A sign by the park entrance was depicting a dog on a leash, not a dog in a hot red patent bag. So we were fine. We hid Ada in plain sight. The red bag was probably the brightest most noticable thing in the whole park. Little did people know, it contained a little white furrus that soon stuck its nose out.
The last photo of the day is a photo of Jon and Nat relaxing on a redwood tree. I named the photo: "camera strap".
Reader Comments (1)
Haha, this looks like so much fun... I gotta say, the shots in the woods are my favorite - party because it's beautiful, and mostly because it's awesome seeing your puppy chilling in a bright red bag the whole time. ;]