The color of August

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• Just beautiful, all firey little fairy leaves.

• That looks like poison oak.

  • Right you are, Wally! Pretty, isn't it? Or one might call it an angry red.

    bigsurkate, on a mountain top in Big Sur

• I remember guests from S. California visiting the Inn at Ventana, years ago.
  She and her husband went for a canyon walk. She brought back a beautiful wreath of this "absolutely beautiful" red-leafed vine, and adorned her neck with it.
  The results were stunning.

  • Oh, what a picture! You made me laugh!

    bigsurkate, on a mountain top in Big Sur

• I was just commenting yesterday that the beautiful fiery red swaths on the mountainside ironically are poison oak!

• I named my daughter August partly because I love the way everything looks and smells in Big Sur then. Oh and she has red hair too lol!

• Similar to Ventana story...had a friend who worked at Robles del Rio in Carmel Valley. With an upcoming wedding, he added this beautiful "red vine" to the bridal party bouquets.