A Wine Country Special
Happy New Year everyone. The rain has finally arrived in Sonoma County and I’m loving it. The dreary weather makes shopping, eating in restaurants, going to a movie more cozy in my mind. With coziness in mind let me tell you about a beautiful little informal wine shop that just happens to be a restaurant or
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Petaluma, What to do Downtown
How funny, just after the NYTimes prints an article on Sebastopol, 96 Hours from the San Francisco Chronicle publishes a little blurb on Western Street, one of the main streets of downtown. The article talks about the Iron Front buildings, that really occupy much of the downtown corridor not just on Western Street, a coupla
... more »Sebastopol in the NYTimes
It’s always a celebration for us when we see an article about our small towns in a national newspaper like the NYTimes. Some of the places mentioned I’ve covered in previous posts but there are new uncovered gems that may strike your fancy. Take a minute now and see what the Times says: This page
... more »A Bird in the Hand
Just a reminder that the great bird migration through Sonoma County is happening right now. Those of you who are Birders already know that Schollenberger Park in Petaluma is one of the many marshlands locally that invites the beautiful and graceful Egrets to land and feed, as well as those noisy Canadian Geese. Personally, Schollenberger
... more »Wine & Food Affair – Go!
For those of us who live in the wine country of Sonoma County, we know that the Napa and Sonoma Valleys have always had the lion’s share of the media spotlight. For those of you who don’t know better, Sonoma County just to the east, also has celebrated wine areas, small batch wineries, family owned
... more »Tea for Two
Before my daughter left for the East Coast where she’ll be starting grad school in September – yah! We headed to The Tea Room Cafe on Western Street in downtown Petaluma. No it’s not Jacqueline’s Tea Room, which is across the street and down a block, and it’s not really all about drinking tea, if you
... more »Art is the Spice of Life
I recently took a tour of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts with Linda Galletta, its Executive Director. Housed in a renovated warehouse at 6780 Depot Street in Sebastopol, just about a mile north of the Fairfield Inn & Suites, Linda was just finishing the installation of the Bibliophoria – Celebratte Books Arts exhibit which
... more »Ellis Creek – a new Trail
It’s not usual that you open your monthly water bill and get an idea about a new trail to run, but sure enough it happened. The water bill had a newsletter enclosed with it and a small blurb there caught my eye – Wetland Trails. Specifically the trail is called Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility,
... more »A Chocolate Cake made by an Angel
Hi Ho there, I know it’s been several months since I posted – bad, bad – no excuses, I was just putting it off. Today I want to talk about pastries – cake – chocolate cake – chiffon chocolate cake and Patisserie Angelica(6821 Laguna Park Way, Sebastopol, 707-827-7998). Every so often I hear this cake
... more »What’s in a City?
I know I’m late but Happy New Year and if your Asian, Gung Hay Fat Chow. In the last two months, two destination/food magazines, VIA, a membership only magazine from AAA and Sunset had articles on Petaluma and Sebastopol respectively. The Sunset article about Sebastopol was two pages of concise where to go what to
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