Life after death, I know, an odd title for a blog which generally hosts photos from weddings filled with love, engagement shoots filled with excitement and other photographs which leave you wondering...
However, if you've been following me for any time, you also know that my words, at times, go in other directions. Just about life in general I guess. And this just happens to be one of those times. Don't you feel lucky!?!?! haha...
Recently, I was introduced to ice wine. This wine is the sweetest that one could ever dream up. I would go as far as saying it's not a wine at all. However, it surely is.
The process in which this wine is made is slightly uncharacteristic to the normal process. Why? Well, the grapes are left on the vines months after all the others have been perfectly pruned. The grapes are then harvested in the dead of winter when the temperature finally reaches -10 degrees. And not only that, but they're harvested at night so that the sun doesn't have a chance to warm the juices at all. (or is it because they're so shriveled and ugly that if anyone knew that's what produced this wine it wouldn't be so sweet in the end?) By doing this, the grapes have lost most of their hydration. Creating a juice that is much more concentrated than what you would normally have as an end result.
After thinking about this process, the grapes resulting in a wine unparalleled. Thoughts came around, as they usually do in my head, how this wine and these grapes are much like our lives....
We begin this growth process where the days are bright, the sun is shining. The temperature just perfect. It seems as if life can't really get much better... Then, then we're forced into the period where things aren't so bright anymore. The nights cold. The solitude.... We can only look back at how beautiful those days were. Green, lush, full of life. Now we hang in this place where we have lost all the life around us. We are in the coldest and hardest of times. Everything gray, drab and hollow...
Then, before you know it, we find new light. We find new steps to reach for and we come out on the other side sweeter than we ever were and could ever begin to imagine.
Just like these grapes that make Ice Wine... They go through the bright days, the lush days, over to the dark days and once they make it through each part of that journey. They produce something so sweet. So wonderful. Something that with out those dark and cold days, would never exist....
And if you ask me, that's a good way to look at the hard times we all face for one reason or another. It's a good thing to keep in mind. Knowing that once we make it through the dark and cold days. We are left with the sweetest life we could ever image. We just need to hold onto the vine long enough to get there....
'eh....
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