Today we visit a very special shop!
The visit to Don and Anna Bie's 'Fair Street Films' workshop was inspiring: such creative people, using their resources to make amazing models. With a history in film work, including 'Star Wars', and -of course, 'Back to the Future', Don and Anna and the crew were in the process of building NASA rockets. They had shipped off quite a few to an exhibit in Stockholm, Sweden and Don showed us a video of the pieces. We were so impressed with their work and they seemed to enjoy our car. 
Many pictures were taken, smiling faces all around.
Now for wine tasting at a favorite winery of our friends, Graton Ridge Cellars.
A sweet vineyard. The grapes are very small. They don't let them get too big, in order to concentrate their flavor. Tastey wines and a boccee ball court. First time for both wine tasting and boccee playing. The 'pallino' is the white ball and the goal is to get as many of your team's colored balls as close to the pallino as possible. Not much athleticism required, so it suited us well! And we worked on a nice bottle of Chardonnay as we played, which improved the skill level (or at least our perceived skills.) 
A lot of fun! (Even though the boys tried their best to cheat, the girls won!)
We drive through a neighborhood where a fellow has installed creative lawn art. It started with one for himself and then his neighbors wanted one of their own. The art is humorous representations of the neighbors done in found metal objects, welded together. Some large, 4 feet, others smaller. A mailman, a milkman, dogs, cows, just plain fun! Northern California seems to have such creative energy in it's people! Then to Namaste', where we enjoyed lamb, shrimp, chicken, eggplant, saffron rice. Yummy! The moon rise was beautiful over the hills, Happy Fall everyone.
Now to sleep, tomorrow we drive to Sacramento for a TV interview and museums.
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