Fall is a busy time of year for us

 The first weekend in November we sell our jewels at the Sacramento Arts Festival in the Convention Center in midtown. It's one of our best shows and this year our sales were amazingly good and we had a good time, even though we were on our feet many hours a day talking to hundreds of people. Many of the people we talked to have been customers buying our jewelry for 20 and 30 years plus. It's an interesting linear relationship extending over time. We see them for 20 minutes or half an hour at a show but after many years we build bonds with them and they are friends. This is an enjoyable aspect of the selling our work. Although it's a lot of work doing the show it was actually pleasant and relaxing for us. On our way home we were gifted with a couple of beautiful natural phenomenon.
The first was this great rainbow near Cloverdale. It was difficult to capture it's intensity with my camera but I think it was the most intensely colorful one I've seen in my almost 73 years on the planet. It was a complete arc and sometimes a double arc and was really a treat to see.

 It rained off and on all the way home from Sacramento and when we got to the coast just south of Mendocino we were greeted with this sunset, a row of dark clouds across the horizon and wonderful colors breaking through above. We see a lot of spectacular sunsets on the coast, this one was up there with the best.

A couple of days after we returned and were at the start of our almost daily walk into downtown Ft. Bragg, we spotted this little guy in front of a neighbors house. He was really focused on whatever he was chewing on and stayed in place even though I got quite close to him. There is a lot of wildlife in our neighborhood, some of which wanders up from Pudding Creek on the northern end of Ft. Bragg. Deer, raccoons, opossums, skunks, foxes and so forth.