Author: David B. Williams

More wine and rocks! Here’s another cairn related winery and winemaker Chris Hanson of Four Cairn told me about how they came up with the name.

“As far as the name and design our winery is young in its life.  We were trying to find a name that alluded to the vineyard site we have that is an old creek-bed, sandy, rocky and gravelly.  We wanted a name that had to due with rocks but be unique and something that had not been done.  So we came to the word Cairn that is known by many and not known by more.  The label designer loved the name and idea and came up with the hand drawn rocks that are on the label.  The Four comes from the size of our vineyard, four acres. We get a lot of positive comments on our label and questions of what is a cairn.  It sparks a conversation on the label, name and wine which is what it was intended to do.”

 

Perhaps the Republicans might now be willing to admit that they should believe in climate change. Here’s my simple argument for why they should finally recognize the need to do something about it. Our warming planet helped Obama win the election. Hurricane Sandy, which many have pointed out was bigger and more nasty because of our new climate paradigm, showed Obama’s presidential qualities and the importance of good government.

Yes, his numbers were on the upswing prior to Sandy but Obama’s strong showing during and after the storm certainly aided him and helped make people realize the short sightedness of Romney’s statement about FEMA. So I conclude that the election was the silver lining on climate change. We can only hope that everyone now bands together and tries to address this critical issue.