Along Wine Road: Fall 2011
Startlingly lovely…
Enchantingly, amazingly, gorgeously startling, the Fall colors along Wine Road make me stop and take notice; this is a time of reckoning with a true, easy to see change of seasons. I have been reflecting on the past and looking towards winter while gazing at the amazing display of colors, caused by the cold at night (dipping into frosty temps); the leaves are dying with an amazing burst of colorful life at their demise. The inexorable march of time exemplified….this year is showing colors better than I remember of late- each season along Wine Road is truly enchanted.
This idea of the beauty of the dying leaves was well expressed by Pookie Adams, played by Liza Minelli in THE STERILE CUCKOO-Wendell Burton is in this snap- you may recall him from the titular role in our local ACT production of YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN…(though my parents tried to filter what films I saw, THE STERILE CUCKOO was a double-bill with TRUE GRIT- I ended up seeing it a ton of times…lots of bedroom scenes given the time frame of 1969….)
Oh, hi ho in the
lavender wood
A sterile cuckoo
is crying.
Oh, hi ho in the
lavender snow
A sterile cuckoo
is dying.
In the darkness of
her heart
It is always
three o’clock in the
morning.
These were just snapped on my visit out to the RRV yesterday and today toward Santa Rosa and in Healdsburg…wow- I am totally ensorcelled.
Right around the corner from the Wine Road Worldwide HQ.
I love Normandy poplars- reminds me of what our troops experienced there in WWI and WWII- and, as I wandered under the poplars today at Vinters Inn, the lovely smell of the leaves is a walk down memory lane, too….
Vines are lovely, too- but too much or the wrong colors can indicate vine disease….
The day draws to a close….
Out near Korbel.
Porter Creek….
Along Westside Road looking east….
Ditto.
The light dies as do the colors….
Here’s looking at you, kids.
TR
Toyon berries brighten up the landscape all winter long and make the birds who eat them rather tipsy.
