#gibson block

[wine-porn]

I Vant to be a Rhone

Interesting juxta between two big reds last night… one obviously 3 or 4 times the cost and perceived availability, and produced 4 or 500 miles apart in California. One from the warm, exclusive Westside of Paso on fairly young vines–one from serious old-vines in chilly Mendocino. Both MASSIVE, one from proper Syrah massiveness: packing finesse and complexity in the tannic cracks; the other from…

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[meg-in-yeg]

Gibson Block

I’ve been wanting to photograph this building for years. Finally, one day, I decided to do it. I’m glad I did — she’s a beauty!

[wine-porn]

Marry Me

Ridiculously black, impenetrable, staining stuff. Black-ruby with a wisp of a purple rim. Burnt-tire, crushed-bug and piquantly-briary nose thick and crazily-perfumed, dark bitter olive pit and glycerin-y cherry in a black mash SO concentrated, SO thick with flavor, SO nuanced as to be obfuscating to reality. This is Syrah on Paso Robles proportions, a thick mash not nodding to Cornas or St.…

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[citiesandcitizens-blog]

Edmonton, AB.  March 2015.

[maybeedmonton]

The Gibson Block, Edmonton, 1981

[yegthenandnow]

Edmonton Then & Now - Gibson Block Downtown

The Gibson Block is large wedge-shaped four-storey brick building constructed in 1913. It occupies four lots of a triangular block on Jasper Avenue at the eastern edge of Edmonton's pre-World War One commercial core.

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