Magic Evening

I have three wonderful friends that I get together with once a month. We encourage eachother to develope as women and artists. We usually set goals for ourselves at the end of each meeting and then discuss our successes or lessons learned at the following one.
This time we decided to just get together and enjoy eachothers company. Sally invited us up to the farmhouse adjacent to the Oak Hieghts Winery that she runs. Her fiance, who owns the property and the winery, was gracious enough to let us take over the house for a night. It was a most delightful evening.
Apon our arrival we popped into the winery where we started our evening with some wine tasting.
This is the beautiful Sally. She's been an awsome friend to me and I adore her.

Troy was there when we first arrived. He is Sally's right hand man. He was, as always, a wonderful host, and joined us for a glass of wine before leaving us to our night of the sisterhood.

This is Sielagh. She's always great fun to be with. She's so genuine, kind, and funny. She was instrumental in helping me discover myself as an artist.

This is Veronica, who I've mentioned breifly in a previous post. She is such a talented and inspiring artist. I've been very influenced by her throughout my self exploration. I'm going to be helping her set up a blog after the summer. I've been pushing her to have one because she takes great photographs and surrounds her life with such beauty. I know everyone will fall in love with her.

After our wine, we headed over to the farm house to prepare dinner with all the goodies we brought. This is me at the counter creating a salad with lettuces, avacado, herbs, rose petals and calendula.

We had a fantatic feast. Fresh water fish, cheezes and dips, pasta, fruit, and veggie salads. I thought I was going to explode.



After dinner and sunset, we ventured out to the hot tub. We enjoyed the water and our wine immensly. Sally said she felt like we were the Witches of Eastwick. We then dubbed ourselves the Witches of Warkworth.


There really did seem to be some magic flowing that evening as we sat in our cauldrin.

Bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble.

I took this picture the morning after.

I hadn't even realized there was a birds nest in the gazibo. It's a good thing no one sat on it in the dark.

Some Delphinium in the gardens.

The pool. If I had known how delightfully warm the water was, I would have gone swimming the night before as well.

Views of the property,

The vinyards.

The winery and restaurant.


Saying goodbye was hard.