October Morning: Threatening Rain

The Black Birch Winery, on a low ridge overlooking the Pioneer Valley towards MT Tom. Mid-October!
Oil on linen board: 12x16. Plein Air

October Beauties: Whatley

Angus...Black or Abredeen?  Neither, according to Wikipedia: 

Black with white faces are an Angus-Hereford Cross.  Oil on linen board, 9x12, Plein Air:

They had recently been brought down to the barn paddock from Summer Pasture, 

and they were  basking in the warm October sun. The Maple trees have lost the top half of their leaves. The Pines have shed their needles.