I usually don't do this on this blog, but since I'm on a little vacation I want to share some of the highlights with you. In the last post we had a shot of the house used in the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Shadow of a Doubt." But that's not the only place we saw. A few wineries were on our agenda and while at one winery we heard about a cheese factory. We like that, so I investigated and onward we went.
The Joe Matos Cheese Factory is in the middle of the wine country down a long, muddy driveway, past a bunch of muddy cows, who no doubt supply the milk for the cheese, and into a muddy courtyard between a delapidated barn and a storage building. On that storage building there is a modest sign that says, "Cheese Factory." When you open the door a claxon sounds to let someone know you are there. There's an old glass counter with a big wedge of cheese in it, a cash register, and an open door with a peek into the cheese drying room where the big wheels of cheese--only the one kind, Portuguese St. Jorge, a mild medium cheese--are stored. The place smelled of mold, and not in a good way. But finally, a young woman emerged who spoke little English but who gave us each a nice slice to try. It was really lovely. $7 a pound. We bought two.
Santa Rosa has what they call their Rural Cemetary and I can't pass up a cemetary with granite monuments and lots of creepy moss, so here are a few pics.
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