Rainy Day Vineyards

In honor of my friend Sean Scott and the one year anniversary of his passing, I wanted to show you all the mustard flowers that are beginning to pop up here in the wine country!

Wordless Wednesday -#17 (On Thursday)

Too Cool! So excited! Fall Grapes!

So have you ever seen grapes growing on the vine?

Like before they got picked and put in those bins and sent to the grocery store? Yeah, me neither. Seeing that I'm living in the wine country and it's harvest season I was beginning to think they* were making it all up. You know, maybe grapes are really grown on a truck, or they fall from the sky...hmm, that may be a bit messy to clean up...

Anyways, I saw them for the first time today! They're telling the truth I swear (see even I was starting to not believe them!

It was amazing! My mom and I were on the way back from Sacramento on the most gorgeous freeway (one that wraps through some of the prettiest vineyards) and I suddenly started seeing big purple bushels hanging from the bottom of the vines!

We immediately pulled over and I got out and ran over to take pictures (I had to show all my bloggy buddies of course!!)

It really was one of the coolest things and totally made my day!

The Proof:

* They refers to those people, you know the ones, the people who tells us facts growing up and later down the line, looking back we have no idea who told us it. Those people who expected us to believe these facts without giving us the cold hard evidence. Yeah, those ones.

Hoping your day is full of happiness thats as good as grape juice!

Wordless Wednesday -#14

One of the things I think is the most beautiful of where I live is when the lines of the vineyards dance and twirl over surrounding hills.

Sweltering Spring Heat

I'm warning you in advance about the quality of these pictures. I went to a sign language picnic today and halfway through my time there the battery in my camera died. I realized once I got home that when my camera got stolen [here] my charger for the Cannon camera I still have got stolen as well. So I was left to use my point and shoot [which I also love with all my heart] for the rest of today. [And will continue to do so until I can locate and buy an affordable new charger.]

Well we got our first taste of springtime heat! It was around 95 degrees for most of the day and it's supposed to be 5 to 10 degrees warmer tomorrow. An added bonus...our house's air conditioning is broken! Also as we're still unpacking some of our boxes from moving we have no clue where a fan is located. Buying one is one of the first things on my list for tomorrow!

If it's this hot now and it's only spring, I'm afraid to ask how hot it's going to get during the summer! Yowza!

I will note though that these are record highs in weather. It's said that the next couple days are going to be record numbers as well and then the days are supposed to cool back down into the high 70's at the end of the week.

[Speaking of heat, having POTS is extremely difficult in the heat because heat dilates blood vessels. My symptoms were beginning to get really bad today. So out of curiosity, does anyone have any suggestions on easy ways to keep cool? ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated!]

The sunshine sure was beautiful though!

While taking a drive today we passed a beautiful vineyard where California Golden Poppies had grown all throughout the base of the vines. This is the first vineyard I've seen with Poppies - I loved the contrasting colors! 

To end the weekend and start this new week I'll sign off with a picture I took while my family was off tasting wines today.