Of Skies, Leaves, and Tractors

     In late October, the sun doesn't start to bring blue to the black sky until nearly 7:00 am -- and later when storm clouds or fog fill the sky.  I set out shortly before 7:00 to see what colors were in the vineyards now  and got to see sky colors galore too.

Clouds, circling in from the south, cut off sunlight to the laguna.

 

Grapes vines wait for the sun to reach them.

And now the sky finds its familiar blue.

Rolling vineyards decked out in fall's colors

This little grouping calls to me!  

Yup!  Farm equipment gets the right of way.......

.....including (or maybe especially) this guy.

Quintessential colors

I see eerie here....

Can't take my eyes off of you....

Death in front of dying?

     There it is, people.  NorCal wine country getting ready for winter.  The first real fall rain is supposed to roll in tonight.  The SF Giants just took the sixth game in the NL championship series - one more game to go before meeting up with Detroit in the World Series.  That World Series action just puts the exclamation point on the fall sentence!

Hello, Fall

           I live in an part of Northern California that is celebrated for wonderful bike riding.  We have hills and flats, towns and the ocean, small country roads and bike paths.  Bicycling can be treacherous, however, so I generally save long recreational bike rides for Sunday mornings when there is very little traffic.  I do not like riding in the foggy damp weather and we have had a long stretch of such early morning weather.  Finally, last Sunday was the first Sunday morning in a long time  when it was NOT foggy at dawn.  My camera and I set out for what I figured would be a relatively short ride - maybe an hour - but I got pulled in by Fall's appearance and stopped often for photos.

       I guess Fall is tiptoeing in.  He is making his presence known but not entirely blasting us yet.

He has started his fall leaf magic.

Brilliant painter, isn't he?

Are the leaves doing a folk dance or

standing like soldiers?

I wonder if the dead notice the changing earth?

I don't remember every seeing these berry-like things before.

They were so vivd sitting on the fence along the road.

How cool to look closely at this leaf!

Amazing sun shining through!

What colors!

This has got to be quintessential fall, waiting for winter.