Pic of the Day: The Cold and Blustery Day

I first ran across the word "blustery" in the A. A. Milne classic Winnie the Pooh stories. A cold and windy sort of weather, usually typified in the fall. Where leaves of many colors can be spread across the lawn just days after you've raked them up. 

It's the sort of weather settling in across much of the US and Europe these days, even here in Southern California. The sort of weather best handled indoors, with a nice fire and cup of hot chocolate (or tea if you dislike sweets).

It's autumn. And it's about damned time.

(This shot, however, is from the very blustery shore of North Carolina, along the Emerald Isle looking out over the Atlantic Ocean.)

Pic of the Day: Autumn Leaves and Wine

Fall leaves and dormant wine grapes in Northern Virginia's up and coming wine region.

Pic of the Day: First Day of Fall

Yesterday was the first day of Fall, which is perhaps my favorite season for a variety of reasons.

Despite the heat wave we're still enduring in California, I get word from the Eastern Seaboard that leaves have begun changing already in some of the more remote latitudes.

Happy Autumn everyone.

Now where's the rake?