Sometimes the "non-event" can carry as powerful a message as the featured event. While celebrating with the citizens and guests of Lodi, California at the 73rd annual Grape Festival, I came to marvel at the mural on the back wall of the Pavilion. I'll apologize once, for the dark quality of the photos, but not for the message they convey...
The left panel of the mural depicts the tilling, pruning and planting activites of the vineyards during the winter and spring seasons.
The right panel of the mural depicts the growing and harvest seasons of the vineyard.
The main mural panel depicts a panorama of the entire agricultural impact in the California landscape. Tucked below it the "America the Beautiful" banner.
Look closer at the banner artwork below the mural .... there stretching from sea to shining sea ... the fruited plain. So from wine rich grape production in the fields of Lodi, stretching across the continent to the Lady with her lamp held high, we are all part of that great "fruited plain" ... and I am reminded yet again, that there is far more that unites us, than there is that divides us. It's the focus that makes the difference.
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