On the Line

The past week has been such a blur – Menlo already seems like it was a month ago! Such is the price I pay for juggling deadlines with running our October cover contest, setting up a new Sidelines blogger and fitting in a few in-person interviews along the way!

However, it was fantastic to take a short and refreshing trip to the Napa Valley Wine Country this past Friday night. El Molino Winery invited me to visit their private horse facility on the grounds of their 15 acre vineyard. Lily Oliver Berlin and her husband Jon kindly invited me to stay the night so that we could get up early the next morning and shoot photos of her wonderful winery/horse property.

And yes, wine tasting was involved. Oh, the life of an equine journalist!

Cats, dogs and other happy animals were in abundance at El Molino

Trail riding up and down vineyard rows? Sounds good to me!

That's his ivy-covered, complete with waterfall stone water trough you're looking at.

Lily and Jon's beautiful home is steps from their barn, and nestled within a circle of huge oak trees.