Sunny Oakville.

After 5 glorious weeks of unseasonably warm, dry weather Mother Nature has turned gangster on California! I took the above picture a week ago today on my way to the Oakville post office. I miss the sunshine...sigh! Unfortunately, the forecast for the rest of this week isn't very inspiring; high winds, occasional hail, and rain, rain, rain!
On a positive note, whilst standing by a large window in work, mindlessly gazing out at the rain-sodden Cabernet vines, I did espy the largest, most vivid, rainbow I think I have ever seen. In all I saw four rainbows today, one was even a double rainbow. I suppose every cloud does have a silver lining.

Rainbow over Vinoland.

Just 10 minutes ago, Mother Nature graced Vinoland with a very intensely coloured rainbow. It was actually a rather spectacular double rainbow, the one to the left lost amongst the trees.
Of course it came with rain, so the Vinodogs and I had to leave the vineyard, where we had been pruning, rather quickly. It's forecast to rain tomorrow also. When will I make an end of pruning?

Up above the streets and houses...

The warm spring weather, we have been enjoying for a while now, has temporarily departed. The entire Napa Valley laboured under grey, heavy rainclouds all day. On my way home from the winery, the heavens finally opened up. Rainbow Agricultural is the company we hire to service our John Deere tractors from time to time. Now and again, Mother Nature delivers the real thing. In reality, much more vivid than a camera lens can do justice to.