finger lakes day 3

Ventosa

Back in the Finger Lakes again....

We awoke and went to breakfast in our hotel. We heard on the TV in the lobby about the shootings and bombings in Norway. I hadn't been paying attention to the news the past couple days so that news was a bit of a shocker.

The first thing we did was tour Rose Hill Mansion. B and I had toured this mansion years ago when restoration was starting. I was very impressed with the progress made here. Every room was nicely appointed and our tour guide was very informed about the family who had lived there and their history.

Next we stopped at Ventosa Winery. It is a very beautiful new winery overlooking vineyards and Seneca Lake. It would be a lovely setting for a wedding.

The we stopped at Three Brothers....three wineries grouped together that reflect the personalities of the three brothers. There is that word again.....personality. I guess they each had one and each was unique. One winery was upscale and snooty, one fun loving and the third was downright raunchy. They also had a brewery. I didn't really care for any of the wines here that much. Most were too sweet for me and the upscale winery ones were raw and unfinished. So the wines were not my favorites but the wineries themselves were fun.

We headed to Canandaigua next. Here we had lunch at another cute bar and grille on another cute downtown main street. I had the portobello mushroom sandwich here. Then we toured Sonnenberg Gardens...another large summer home mansion built by the New York banker who started Citibank. The gardens were incredible. Breathtaking!

We checked into our hotel in Rochester and drove downtown to meet my good good friend Barb for dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, 2 Vine. I had a bucket of mussels here as I so often do. And a pretty lavender martini.

After dinner Barb came back to our room and we chatted and had a bottle of wine and planned our Day 4.

he who lives in a glass house

gigantic bowl of fruit


glass fan


inlaid glass armoire


Tree of Life window from the Darwin D Martin house....I wish they would return it


cut glass replica of the Liberty Bell complete with crack


green chandelier


free standing chandelier


baptismal font


Dale Chihuly pink cupid chandelier

do you have a personality

Once when I was visiting my younger sister, her daughter, my niece Katie, who couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 years old, went around the room checking to see if we all had a personality. She would hold some toy of hers above our heads and ask "Do you have a personality?" to see if we had one. Everyone in the room had a personality until she came to me. She held the toy above my head, then looked at it and declared "Nope. No personality." And at the time, I believed that I agreed.

green salad

one day i made a green salad....completely green

cucumber

kiwi

celery

broccoli

the dressing was dijon mustard, honey, lime juice, olive oil and rice vinegar

a glass menagerie

a glass half full

multi-facets

As I was out walking at lunchtime, I was trying to analyze myself; something I have done many times with inconclusive results. I am like this. No, I am like this. This is the way I am. I’m not really that way at all. I got to thinking that I’m multi-faceted. And most people are but some more than others I think. I started to liken personalities to gems.
Some people know what they want starting at a very young age. They know what they want to be and where their interests lie. These people are probably an Emerald cut. A very large flat surface with varying levels of other interests on either side. They are never wavering.
Some people are Marquise. They have a couple of different interests and are pulled between the two. Marquise is my least favorite cut though. It looks sharp and caustic to me. I know someone who was cut by someone’s Marquise diamond and had to be taken to the ER for stitches.
Oval cut people are probably very balanced. They have quite a few interests and facets to their personalities that revolve around a centrally located interest….probably family.
Hearts are probably hopeless romantics. They love someone or something especially but are still balanced.
Pears…..I don’t know. These people are a little more complicated.
Princess, Radiant and Trillion….again fairly balanced with a major purpose or goal.
I think I fall into Glyptic and Fantasy Cuts….a jack of all trades sort of a person. No clear cut goals. Interests all over the board…..morphing and changing. I often think I’d like a different line of work for every day. I like change. And then again I like things to be the same. But all in all I think I like change.
Sometimes I like to be alone. Sometimes I like to be surrounded by people. Sometimes I think I don’t want to go to some function and then I’m the last to leave. Sometimes I think I have multiple personalities. I’m making too much of this. We probably all feel the same way. Well, not all of us, I’m sure. But some of us, I’m sure.