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Armstrong Redwood Grove, Global Climate Action Summit, Golden Eye Vineyard, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov. Jerry Brown, Guerneville, Healdsburg, Highway 128, Navarro Vineyards, Penny Royal Farms, Rise for Climate March, San Francisco, September, Toulouse Winery

Navarro Vineyards in the Anderson Valley on Hwy. 128.
The combination of late summer and early autumn make September a beautiful time of the year. Our ninth calendar month admits seasonal blur by stubbornly retaining its seventh month name (from the ancient Romans, whose year had ten months beginning in our March). A returning temporal and psychological equinox, often both the Rosh Hashanah New Year of the Jewish calendar and the Autumn Moon Festival in Asia occur in September. Mirroring a farmer’s almanac, we journey from one state of mind to another as fruit and leaves ripen and fall.
I’m also thankful to my parents for making September a now indelible part of my year. This month of change includes, within less than ten days of each other, the memorial day of the death of my father and the anniversary day of the birth of my mother.