Imagine taking a stroll through a quaint, little historic town with a crisp winter breeze nipping at your nose and seeing the bright red poinsettia wreaths hung on the light posts. As you walk, you peer through the windows of all the mom-and-pop shops with their windows painted with snowmen and holiday greetings and their displays of warm coats and scarves. While passing the shops, you read the plaques stating what that particular building used to be a hundred and fifty years ago. You hear the sound of small talk among the other lingering patrons and the subtle echo of holiday music playing through the speaker system. You smell the afternoon specials being served at the small town diners. You smell the local coffee shops brew their coffee for the local employees that are so lucky as to be able to work in the beautiful downtown area of Grass Valley, CA. Grass Valley is the perfect vacation spot because of the beauty, the history and the surrounding areas. The beauty of Grass Valley is unmatched. While it may get a little toasty in the summer months during the day, the evenings are perfect. There is always a cool delta breeze so summer barbeques and get-togethers are flawless. The local softball player’s relish when they have games later in the night. When summer starts to fade away, the leaves change into beautiful golds, oranges, and reds. Virginia Miller from www.sfbg.com said it perfectly. “When friends from New England told me this was THE spot they'd go for equally radiant fall colors, I was skeptical. But from my first visit in November years past, I walked through neighborhoods of old Victorians and 1800s homes, awash in the brilliant reds, yellows and oranges of my favorite season, dramatically cast against the green of mountain pines.” The first rain of the autumn months is the most exhilarating, refreshing smell. It’s as if you smell the summer heat wash away, and you’re able to start fresh. When the leaves start to