Roadside Flowers

The weather didn't cooperate for flying on Wed. so we had the day off. We headed up to the Santa Ynez valley just north of Santa Barbara to visit a few wineries and see the countryside. There are something like 70 wineries in this small area, but a couple is all we can manage and still drive safely! We went to Avant first because it had a restaurant where we could have lunch. It is quite a big winery and a number of local vineyards use its facilities to make their wine so there was quite a selection of different wines to try. We then did a loop around the area on some back roads. The Drum Canyon Road leading to Los Alamos was a little winding road up a pretty valley. We stopped several times to take photos of the wildflowers along the roadside. We finished up with a visit to the Sunstone winery which had a nice tasting room building and produced organic wine.

California poppy

lupines

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