visiting the vineyards

Hi everyone!

After a couple of months of absence, I´m now back blogging.

I have a few posts drafted but weren´t published yet and this is one of those. 

The grapes are at their best now.  This cluster of vineyards is located in our 

district , in the slopy hills of Bisamberg. The locals come here to hike towards the 

top where the former tower of the local radio and TV station was located. The tower had long been  removed, but the locals still hike to reach the top.

From there, one can relax and enjoy the beautiful emerging viennese skyline.

The grape harvest in Vienna starts middle of August til November.  

At this time of the year, there are various wine festivities in all 

"weingartens". 

I took this photo in one of the vineyards and these grapes were

really very sweet!

With her little short legs, Lily was even  better-off than myself . She was running, smelling, stood still when people passed in front of her.  

Along the way, I took shots of the wild flowers inside 

the vineyards we visited.

 These grapes were so sweet!!!

The owner of these vineyard steps made use of  old vine barks as support 

for the stairs, which is a good functional idea!

These vineyard visitors are going up to join one of the wine festivities. 

Lily, couldn´t decide whether to join them, LOL!

Though we only walked very slowly, we only made it 1/4 of the way to the top. 

I was beginning to feel pain in my feet, so we just stayed taking pics of few 

vineyards we reached. And thank God, we were lucky to have reached 

the car before the rain poured down. 

Hope you enjoyed the pics!

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the organic fresh produce

During our vacation in Spain, we were constantly surprised by our spanish neighbour, who is also our mason and brought us the veggies and fruits he harvested from his finca. 

His finca (farm) is just about a hundred meters from our house. He is cultivating his land of about 20 thousands squares meter with lots of various trees, avocados, olives, mango and many more..

In short, he is self sufficient and all the veggies he is cultivating are organic as well as the fertilizers he is using..manures and all that...no insecticide to eradicate the parasites in all his plants.

.....and so we had fresh produce in some of the days..

As we live up the hills, we need not go to the Supermarket to buy veggies and fresh fruits... Market day in our area takes place on Mondays.

If our mason isn´t working, you can surely find him building his house below us or he is tending to his farm like here in the pic below.

lemon tree with lots of fruits

When we were invited to his  house which is still undergoing consatruction, I saw his artistic work done in each of the corner of the house and he is doing it alone by himself without the help of anyone.

We were lucky to have him as we just have to call him by phone and if he´s available, he would surely work on some small projects in our house to our full satisfaction... Below is his house still going under construciton. It´s full of artistic details...it really is!!!

Til  then..enjoy your Sunday!