The fall colors in downtown Grants Pass, Oregon. We had lunch at the Blue Stone Baker in Grants Pass, Or. Cute town and yummy lunch.
This is our campsite at the Freed Estates Winery tonight. It is a Harvest Host site, so we get to stay free and we have to buy something. It has its own gazebo with tables, chairs and a BBQ on the river. We are in between the river and the vineyards. These are cabernet grapes. They are going to pick them on Monday.
Nancy pouring us wine for our wine tasting. We bought a nice bottle of Rose. More cab grapes. The vines are loaded.
The bus and gazebo. The river from our campsite.
We went by Phoenix on the way here, and the Rogue River route. We have boated the Rogue a few times. Lovely area. Freed Estate Winery sign through our dirty windshield and they have roses at the end of each row of grapevines. It is like the canary in the coalmine, if there is a problem with the roses there is going to be a problem with the grapes. We had dinner tonight with our friends Linda and Fred. We met last year when Linda and I were partnered to exchange pine needle xmas ornaments. She is a very avid basket maker. She showed me some of her beautiful work. They cooked us yummy ribs and baked beans with peach pie a la mode for dessert. It was fun to see them.
Linda and I. We are both pine needle basket coilers. This morning we woke up to thick fog. these 6 photos show the fog, it burning off and the beautiful colors this am.
It is so beautiful to wake up in a vineyard. A feral monarda and two spiderwebs wet with dew.
This photo and the next one are parts of a panaroma. I had to cut it in half for it to print two full size photos when I get the blog printed. We are now parked in the parking lot of Oregon Motor Coach. We are going to have some work done starting on Monday. There are electrical hook ups here so that those of us who live in our rig can spend the nights here, we just have to be out during the day so they can work on it. The top of the photo is the parking lot, all 10 hookup sites are full, plus a couple extra coaches. The bottom part of the photo is where we parked, shoehorned in between a couple coaches in the back dirt lot. We are plugged into the second plug in on the post behind us. They are pretty busy and the lot is full. It is cloudy, gloomy and rainy here. But it is not snowing!
We went hiking today with Leslie and Scott. The photos don't show it, but the sun was mostly out and the colors were lovely. I bought new boots today and was trying them out on the hike. I wore the soles off my old boots. One of the reviews of these new boots said that even though they said they were waterproof they weren't. So I am testing them here. My pair is pretty waterproof, and the mud just beaded up and ran off.
The river view. Leslie, Rhody and Scott. These oak trees have lichen and moss on them and the colors with the turning leaves are pretty.
This is a vintage Foretravel Grand Villa Unihome. Circa late 80's early 90's. Foretravel makes excellent rigs, we toured their factory in Texas. Someone moved out of their spot today in the parking lot so we moved to a normal spot with normal hookups. It was only a couple hundred feet, so John didn't take the whole sunscreen down. It looked like it was winking at me as I directed him into the spot.
We are here in the middle in a normal spot, not squeezed in the back as before. Sunset tonight.
Looks like the bright colors in sunset tonight were on the horizon, behind buildings. We'll take what we get.
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