Hello and Happy Friday! How was your week? Must’ve been tough to have a complete week of back to normal after our Thanksgiving holiday last week; I hope you had a good break. For us we had a very relaxing Thanksgiving holiday in Malibu in Southern California.
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Fall Weekend in Sonoma Wine Country
Hello and Happy Friday! Hope you had a good week and are ready for the weekend. Today I’l like share pictures of our fall holiday in Sonoma Wine Country last week.
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Hoshigaki – The Japanese Art of Drying Persimmons
I call it serendipitous when I saw persimmons hanging like on a clothes line at Folktale Winery in Carmel Valley last week. The timing was too coincidental as I had just been chatting with my friend Lakshmi a few days earlier about this drying technique, when she was sharing with me about a friend of hers who dried persimmons on a clothes line the Japanese way.
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Fall Weekend in Big Sur, CA
Hello and Happy Friday! Today I’d like to share pics of beautiful Big Sur which we visited last week. Here in Northern California sunny blue skies, cool temps and spectacular scenery is what awaited us in Big Sur.
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Wine Tasting in Anderson Valley, Mendocino County
Hello and Happy Friday! Trust you had a good week. Today I’d like to share pics of our favorite wine trail in Northern California – Anderson Valley in Mendocino County.
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Beaches, Sunsets, Ocean, Fall at Sea Ranch
Hello and Happy Saturday! Hope you had a good week and are ready for the weekend. Today I’l like to share some pics of beautiful beaches and spectacular sunsets at Sea Ranch in Northern California.
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Drive Back Home from Sea Ranch and Champagne Tasting in Sonoma 🍾
After a wonderful relaxing Labor Day weekend at Sea Ranch we headed home on Monday morning. We drove on the coast and then chose to cut across Sonoma wine country via Guernville to head home; instead of driving through Marin and San Francisco which is the route we took when we came up to Sea Ranch.
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Studio Art Tour at Sea Ranch and Gualala
When we visited Sea Ranch this past Labor Day weekend, I was so thrilled to find out there was an artist studio tour happening. This is a type of drive -at-your-pace art tour when artists open their home studios for visitors to see their art and purchase them too.
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Walks on the Bluff and Beachside Musings at Sea Ranch
Sea Ranch an idyllic coastal village on the Mendocino coast is a magical place with trails that run for miles and miles along the ocean side. Beautiful views of jagged rocks, blue waters, and majestic cliffs are a surprise around every bend. This area is so beautiful that it’s hard to resist the countless photos one takes 😁.
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Labor Day Weekend at Sea Ranch with Friends Dave and Rose
Hello! Happy September! How was your Labor Day holiday? It was hot hot hot around here. Fortunately we had planned our holiday weekend up the coast a while back, especially after a hectic month of wedding and family visiting. It worked out perfectly because the weather on the coast at Sea Ranch was phenomenal! Cool, sunny, temps in the 60s and 70s, with spectacular ocean views. It was the perfect relaxing holiday we needed!
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