This slide show was made for an assignment for Tina Seelig's online class, "A Crash Course on Creativity."

1. Shopping in Wine Country
Insights and Hidden
Opportunities
By Jenny Pessereau

2. Two Towns

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5. Eight Stores

6. Fleurtique

7. H Frank

8. Summervine

9. Napa General Store

10. Amelia’s Gifts

11. Ivy, Twigs & Twine

12. Scott Lyall

13. Helen Lyall

14. B. Real Women’s
Apparel

15. One Wallet

17. Yup. That’s it.
One dollar.

18. Insights

19. I kept noticing jackets….

25. I didn’t know I was looking for
one.

26. They were all more than…

27. I also saw lots of beautiful
things for my home.

28. Furniture

29. Candles

30. Dishes

31. Clocks

32. Art

33. Squirrels

34. Mermaids

35. Bowls in the shape of chickens

36. All more than…

37. I decided to…
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38. I would find something on…
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39. Even more than jackets and furniture, I
coveted the feathers in this Indian
headdress.

40. They were candies! Surely I
could afford one of these!

41. But there was no price.

42. I searched for solace in dog-
friendly stores.
 You can always tell by
the bowl of water outside
the door.
 I didn’t take my dog
shopping. I wonder if she
would have been
welcome inside the store.
 (You can see her in An
Uncertain Beginning, my
last assignment.)

43. Some places are more friendly
to dogs than to people.
 This visitor center
never asked me if I
needed help. How
did they know I
wasn’t just visiting?

44. Still, I didn’t find anything for
just one dollar.

45. Some places were clearly going
to be too expensive.

46. I had to…

47. That’s when I cheated.

48. Hidden Opportunities

49. I found something I wanted.
Something really special.

50. I got out the plastic.
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51. I bought my daughter something I knew she
would love for Christmas.

52. Here it is.
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53. Oh. I can’t show you. That would spoil the
surprise.
 It’s for her Christmas
stocking.
 This is what we do on
the night of
December 24th: we
hang stockings from
a fireplace.
 They are magically
filled with small gifts.

54. Gifts as small as this:

55. So that’s what I gained from
Assignment #2.

56. Insights and Hidden
Opportunities
 There are lots of
beautiful things out
there that I could buy QuickTime™ and a
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57. But that’s not what feels good.

58. What feels good is offering a gift
to someone you love.

59. That’s how the magic happens.

60. Shopping in Wine
Country
 Photos and text by
Jenny Pessereau
 Awesome music
you’ll never hear was:
“Ou est ma tete?” by
Pink Martini. I had it
all picked out. Why
won’t you hear it?
Because I didn’t buy
it.