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Castagnasso Clydesdales

Castagnasso Clydesdales

Clydesdales pulled a lot of weight. But to most Clydesdale fans it isn't their size and strength that distinguishes the breed so much as their grace and agility and, above all else, their gentle disposition, the kind of paradoxical sweetness you'd expect to find in an enormous puppy.

Winter 2008
Like very large dogs

Like very large dogs

In Sonoma, there are lots of equestrian people. They have stables and Thoroughbreds and expensive toys and Stetson hats. For them, horses are hobbies. And then there is Neil Shepard.

Winter 2008
Collecting Jack

Collecting Jack

Some people collect bottle caps, some people collect stamps, some people collect Ferraris. Darius Anderson collects Jack London. Lots of Jack London.

Winter 2008
Radical Jack

Radical Jack

Perched on a picnic table half a mile from the Wolf House where the socialist Jack London's capitalist dream went up in smoke, Jonah Raskin reflects on the enduring contradictions of the man who remains both a publishing icon and an industry.

Winter 2008
For the birds

For the birds

see more photos at end of article

Fall 2008
Out  of Africa

Out of Africa

Safari West may not have enough room for 100 giraffes, any one of which can eat up to 75 pounds of tree leaves a day, but on the preserve's 400 acres there's enough space for entire herds of wildebeest, watusi cattle, cape buffalo, impala and antelope. There's room for an alphabet soup of animals from addax to zebras.

Fall 2008
The girl & the grape

The girl & the grape

Athletically slim, with a shining mane of dark brown hair that could star in its own shampoo commercial, she conveys both the glamour and braininess behind her craft; she is the lady winemaker, a tastemaker in heels.

Summer 2008
Home sweet Homewood

Home sweet Homewood

You come to drink wine at Homewood, which is not Wine Country so much as great wine in the country.

Summer 2008
Time in a bottle

Time in a bottle

Summer 2008
Water and fire

Water and fire

In search of the springs

Spring 2008
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