It's a cold Fall morning

In an earlier post, I talked about the frost warning lights we have in the vineyards. They allow us to monitor the temperatures from a distance. As I traveled to work this morning just before 5:00 AM, one of our lights on the Yountville Crossroad was green. The temperature was between 34 & 37 degrees. Traveling down the Silverado Trail, I could see the glow from at least 3 sets of lights where night harvesting was underway. Hand harvesting of grapes is hard work even when the temperature is not in the extremes. Earlier this harvest we had to deal with high temperatures, and now we're dealing with low temperatures.

And in the quiet of the morning, I could almost hear Willie Nelson singing:

"Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Farmers... "