Everyone please lift your glasses tonight and toast: to friends, family, and those wonderful things that come into your lives for but a moment and then go. We get few things in life to us that mean so much and we often take them for granted. I hope you will take a moment and remember what you love and cherish it.

Tonight I raise my glass in honor of Betty the blue and gold macaw who passed away quite suddenly. Betty was the foster bird of a friend here in Monterey and was very loved.
Photo taken at Ventana Vineyards at a glorious wine tasting with a few friends on Friday.