Here, There and Everywhere

With all the heavy fog and dew lately it's a good time to look for spider webs. We took a ride to see the Steel Head Trout run. The stream was full of 100's of these fish. In this shot you can see one of the fish jump the falls. No fishermen on this day though. The waves in the lake were too high and the wind was really strong. This stream is off limits to fisher people as it is a nursery stream.

A small flock of Canada geese came fairly close, and I found one that is a cross between a Canada and a domestic goose.

This is one of the black Squirrels that live in Westfield, New York. There are lots of them and they are fairly large and well fed.

Down by the lake a huge flock of Gulls swarm around a person throwing crackers to them.

It's Concord grape season around here, and you should smell the air! It's heavenly..

The Hydrangea trees are in full bloom. They make such gorgeous dried flowers. I like to take a drive by this cemetery where they are, when they fall off the tree and gather up a few for decorations.

And there are some ever bearing red raspberries ripe. Lots more berries are coming on IF we don't get a killing frost.

It's been a really cold and gloomy today. The temperature this morning was 37 deg. About normal for this time of year I guess. Tomorrow more rain in store. The rain is taking down some of the pretty leaves, and I hope by the time the sun does shine again, there are some of them left to photograph.

Here and There

This first picture needs no explanation. The grape yield this year was down according to the growers. Too much rain mostly was the the cause. In case you didn't know how they pick grapes. This machine travels in between the rows with those fingers snatching the grapes from the vines leaving the leaves intact, and deposits the grapes to a vehicle following behind.

I don't know what these Grapes are, but they look good.

On the way home we passed a small farm, and these Guineas were out by the side of the road with their chicks.

Back at the cemetery where I took pictures of the Hydrangeas a while back, they are turning from white to pink. I found quite a few across the road in the ditch that were dried, and they will make a cool arrangement. We had some pretty high winds, and the dried ones just blew off.

Here is a Thistle before it went to seed. I think this is now my favorite color.

We've had some beautiful days. There will be rain coming for the weekend.