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Sardinia Countryside & Winery

After we left the ruins, we took a drive thru the countryside to a lovely winery where we had lunch and had a wine tasting.

Sardinia Countryside

It’s definitely the harvest season, as you can see by the rounded bales of hay scattered around the countryside.  I really liked how vibrant the colors were – and the yellow dots of color the dandelions gave were a nice highlight.

Cork

There was an interesting exhibit in the winery – of cork.  This image compiles the 3 images I took of what we found most interesting.  The image on the left is the bark of the cork tree.  In the middle is the image of the inside of the cork tree, and the image to the right is what a slice of cork looks like when the wine corks have been punched out of it.

Olive Tree

Here was a olive tree on the winery property – it’s over 100 years old!  It’s sort of an oddly shaped tree – with the very stumpy looking trunk, hardly any branches and then leaves on the ends of the tiny branches.  Of course, I guess if one lives to be over 100, one can look however one wants and be simply amazing just by being!

Hollow Inside

One of the interesting things about olive trees is that, apparently, their insides are hollow.  I’m not really certain how they live, since hollowing out any other tree would kill it. 

Sardinia Vineyards

I was able to capture this image of the vineyards right outside the tasting room of the winery.  They grow grapes for both red and white wines here, and surprisingly, Jeff & I liked a white wine best and bought a bottle to enjoy later onboard the ship.

Shades of Green

And, finally, I’ll close out this post with a close up of some of the leaves from the vineyards.  I love the variations of color and the texture visible on the leaves.

Enjoy!