"Bliss" by Charles O'Rear is probably one of the most famous photos in the world. It shows a bright blue sky and a green meadow - its perfection and simplicity made the picture the default wallpaper of Windows XP. However, there is much more behind the motif: it is a place with a moving history. And a place that no longer exists in this form...

A film by Matthias Schwarzer.


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Correction:

▪️ In the video I locate the Windows XP meadow in Napa Valley. Strictly speaking, the wine hill already belongs to Sonoma County, which directly borders it. An annoying mistake - but this doesn't change the story itself. Sonoma and Napa faced the same challenges.


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More about this topic:

▪️ An article from 1993 about the dying vineyards in the Napa Valley:
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/17/ma...

▪️ The mentioned study about wine growing and climate change:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

▪️ A New York Times article about climate change in the Napa Valley:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/di...


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