Winters, CA

Sunny ORE turned to a little cloud and fog in CA, still a good drive. Here I am driving, with a semi passing me. At Dunnigan, we went down the 505 then west on State Hwy 128 to Winters CA. We drove 12 miles further to the AOR Canyon Creek Resort. It was beautiful driving through the hills and valleys, all golden grass and oak trees on the hills. This resort is on the banks of the Putah Creek and you can watch geese in the water, see deer on the hills and wild turkeys nesting in the trees. We drove back into Winters for some groceries and I said to Ron when we came to Main St., shall we? So I drove along in a new subdivision until it came to a dead end. Halloween decorations are out and it is a very tidy town, I’m sure it’s left over from the gold rush days. The old buildings in town are all brick and on one corner there is a portable brick oven on a cart.There are many packing plants for the produce and nuts from the area. One thing I know – I would never live in a canyon. There are hills about 200’ surrounding us and although the sun rises at 7 a.m. it takes until 10 a.m. to reach us. It is very pretty here on the banks of the Putah River with Mallard ducks and geese swimming by. I am amazed by the incredible diversity of the trees, oak all over the mountains and probably 20 more types.