So much

Summer into autumn. No way I can narrate it all; the pics will have to do.

... and thus August ended.

And now it's football season...

And the season of meetings... and baking for meetings...

Sometimes, though, autumn also means a special trip.... like the one my sister and I took to Mackinac Island.... here's the view from The Iroquois Hotel... and the very lovely breakfast....

Back home, it was pleasure to make dinner for my friend Rosemary... love this gnocchi with pomodoro sauce...

And what's dinner without dessert?

And now autumn is for real... as these pics show...

Autumn... I like it fine. You too?

California, the abbreviated version

I didn't make this breakfast—The Red House Cafe in Pacific Grove did—but it's too pretty not to post.

And this is just one flight I enjoyed during an afternoon of wine tasting in the Carmel Valley.

Finally, I like this plant. I don't know his name, but he carries himself nicely. Nice water droplets, too. Just outside the Mission in Carmel.