Serenity, the state of being calm and peaceful. This past weekend we had some crazy waves along the northern coast of California and amazingly warm weather so of course I had to charge up the camera and head to the coast! Santa Rosa is less than an hour to the coast, not too far to […]
Wineland 2015 Day 2
Day 2 started with the hubs on a wanted poster! I’ll explain in a minute 🙂 We hadn’t been to Rodney Strong Vineyards yet and were eager to check out since we see they have several events throughout the summer advertised. The grounds were beautiful but the outside of the building lacked some of the more beautiful architecture we […]
Wineland 2015 Day 1
Snow falling in Sonoma? Only at the wineries on the Wine Road Winter Wineland Event this past weekend! The hubs and I spent hours figuring out which of the 140+ wineries we would attempt to visit in 10 hours over 2 days. We had it all loosely mapped out by Saturday morning, water bottles filled, […]
Olompali SHP
Palm trees, Grateful Dead, Chinese Cedar trees, Miwok Indians, Dentist, historic battle, giant Madrones, dairy barn, hippie commune and hiking. Did I get your attention yet? Normally we are flying through this area of the 101 just north of San Francisco to get from point A to point B…or sitting in the 101 north parking lot for hours on […]
Olive Sonoma
I love olives and I love Sonoma! Welcome to olive season here in Sonoma! I know, I know, any reason to have a celebration right? Absolutely! We attended the blessing of the olives last weekend at Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma and learned more about olives than we thought there was to know! Olives […]
Merry Snowmen
Here in Sonoma County we enjoy any reason for a celebration! This was our first year attending the Lighting of the Snowmen Festival at Cornerstone in Sonoma. We really had no idea what to expect. It was amazing! The energy of all the kids being so excited, Santa in the big blue chair, wine flowing, […]
Goodbye Grapes
This fall was full of amazing colors throughout Sonoma County. The grapevines showed bright yellows, reds, oranges and greens and now it is flowing into winter. The beauty of the vines still exist but the grapes are gone, but not forgotten. Can’t wait to sip on this year’s vintage in a couple years! Gone but […]
Riverfront Park
The great explorers were lost from time to time, right? I usually have a handy printed map with us on our hikes since we don’t always have reception where we go but this one looked so simple that I didn’t bother. Nor did we really bother with looking at the map posted at the trail parking lot […]
Shiloh in fall
We are finally official trail walker volunteers for Sonoma County Parks! We met with the nicest ranger on Sunday at Shiloh Regional Park in Windsor for our field orientation and got to hiking right away. The hubs and I had been looking for something to volunteer in the community that was flexible enough to fit in […]
SOFA Parade
Your town doesn’t have a parade of couches all decorated and lit up cruising down the street? Seriously you’ve never been to a sofa parade? Clearly you need to experience the wonder of what can happen when an art district gets together for a celebration on a sofa! Here in Santa Rosa, CA the art district is located South […]