October ~ Day Trip No.2 ~ Fall!

~ October ~

I didn't know that Fall was going to come and go in just a few weeks... But that's exactly what happened. The weather changed so quickly the trees started to turn very early in September and then it warmed back up for a week and THEN it dived down into the FREEZING range and that was the end of Fall. So, as it turned out, the month of October was Fall! 

Our second Day Trip was back up to Macomb, IL to find that "other" golf course.

We had lunch in Macomb and I took this picture of the neighborhood.

Then we found the Gold Hills Golf Course. If you've been following my blogs you know what I am referring to. We were headed to this golf course one day this Summer but got "Detoured" and never made it. I'm so glad it worked out that way because this was the perfect place for a Day Trip in October.

I have noticed that there is a Memorial Bench in honor of someone special at all the golf courses we have been to. This one is for a woman and I think it is appropriately one of the prettiest. I am going to have to put together an album of Memorial Benches.

Hole No. 1 ...
The clouds were ominous and the wind was chilly but the sun kept peaking through and the trees were beautiful.
Hey there is a "Wooly Worm" on the green...

I call them Fuzzy Caterpillars but here they call them Wooly Worms...
This is one of those bi-colored ones everyone talks about...

Brown in the middle, black head and tail, supposedly this tells us what kind of winter we will have but nobody seems to know exactly.
The sun came out so I could take some photos...

A squirrel to my left and geese to my right...

I read a review on this course and the guy was really negative complaining about the geese,
but how can anyone be a goose-hater?
And these trees... Oh my!

I feel like I just couldn't get the photos that would do justice to these beautiful trees.
Love this scene ~

The geese were cordial and not the least bit rude to us.

I love the leaves on the water behind the geese ~

Richard liked playing this course and I loved the trees and the geese.

At the last hole...

So we saw (and he played) another awesome golf course in Illinois.
It was beautiful in October in it's Fall foliage. I loved it.
Now, we are going back to one of our favorite wineries for a bottle of our favorite wine...
The Village Vineyard & Winery at Camp Point ...

 We came around the corner and we both were in awe of this ...

 This is the town of Camp Point and the winery is just off this street.
We tried a couple of different wines and I had a glass of the Opera House Red...
As we were leaving I wanted to get a photo of the Opera House ~

As always, the drive provided some awesome scenes...

The clouds, the sunset, the fields of corn...

The end of our Day Trip No. 2 in October.
I hope you enjoyed it.
To see all the photos I took go to my Facebook page
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Our 3rd Day Trip in October was to the Sun Valley Golf Course in Illinois
and it was the most beautiful!
I'm working on that blog next.
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Patty Hagedorn Photography