It has been an amazing summer. September is a wonderful month — the weather is often the best of the year. But it also makes me pause and realize summer is nearly over. Tonight they harvest our grapes, so I guess it really is Fall.
Thought I’d share a few of the amazing sunsets, wildlife, and cloud formations we have seen in and around the vineyard this past summer. None of these were taken with a filter or edited.
I’ll start with the most recent, a photo I took Sunday night of the Mount Diablo fire.
Keep in mind this is nearly 20-miles away. Later in the evening it looked even more ominous!
The color is gorgeous, and the clouds made me think God was skywriting.
Blue Heron taking off from our creek.
Love this shot of our gate in the foreground and vineyard in the background, all with a gorgeous sunset glow.
One of our hungry neighbors checking out the grapes.
Another wonderful dinner party outlasts the candles.
Beginning the migration south for the upcoming winter.
The texture of the clouds still amazes me in this photo.
This Robin raised a few chicks in a nest she built on the side of our house.
Cousins playing bocce.
Moonrise over our neighbors vineyard.
D’Aun’s garden when first planted. Today it looks like a well kept jungle!
Even the colorblind are stunned by the colors here.
God was showing off with this sunset. It even lit up our swimming pool!
There’s something whimsical about these clouds, as if they are kids laughing and playing.
I was stunned when I saw this photo on my computer. It looks like an early California plein air painting!
So which one is your favorite? I’m torn between this plein air lookalike, the swimming pool, and the bocce players. How about you?