…It was like a reminder to lift up our heads and refocus on the world around us, to stop agonizing over the challenges that the coronavirus has thrown on our doorstep – it felt like a refreshingly sweet, innocent invitation to look up and breathe…
Read More…now, here I was, rushing off to nowhere at all, simply drinking in the delicate detail on a single geranium petal, savoring the softness of a Lamb’s Ear leaf between my fingers…
Read MoreIt’s Whale Festival Time! Here’s a rundown of all the cool activities available this month as we celebrate our cetaceous neighbors in the sea…
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…Knowing that right now is the prime season to watch the parade of whales heading back north from their calving grounds in Baja California, we decided to go out for a bit of whale watching just yesterday…
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Yesterday, I went on a pilgrimage. I went to Montgomery Woods, to the towering redwoods and whispering silence of nature’s own cathedral…
Read More…We had gotten a little taste of the joy that inspires the passionate enthusiasm of the dedicated mushroom forager. And we were ready for more!
Read More…We love this unique, up close and personal introduction to some of the amazing natural history in our area, and we have definitely been remiss in not sharing it with you earlier…
Read More…this morning we decided to get away from the world and simply be quiet for a little while…
Read MoreAh, fog. Lovely, cooling fog. Yes, it’s gray and damp. But oh how beautiful a backdrop it is for Mendocino’s craggy cliffs and crashing waves, for our towering redwoods and meandering rivers and streams…
Read MoreOh sunset, sunset. Such a lovely time of day…
Read More“Wow, just wow.” We stared up at the trees standing off the steeply twisting trail ahead. We knew these were redwoods, but they looked more like fantastical creatures from a J.R.R. Tolkien tale than the monolithic giants we were used to seeing in the forests around Mendocino…
Read More…if we were forced to rank all the amazing hikes around here in some sort of order from Favorite Hike Of All Time to I Guess We Can Walk There If You Really Want, Russian Gulch would be pretty far up there near the top…
Read More…We were slowly making our way along the meandering grassy paths of the perennial garden… oohing and aahing over every burst of color, every interesting texture of leaf, every variation in size and form…
Read More…in the back of our minds we carried away that wonderful hour of morning glory, and it suffused the rest of the day with peace…
Read More…What a personal, beautiful opportunity to get to know some of the most iconic and majestic creatures of the African landscape…
Read More…we had logged roughly 3 miles of meandering through what may have become our new favorite. Seriously. We’re going back with a picnic soon!
Read More…We were already familiar with some of these tiny trails, but others were brand new to us – so we went out and explored!…
Read More…this is one of the most popular weekends of the year, with rooms getting snagged a good couple of months ahead of time…
Read More…The highlight of the week…was the long, leisurely day that we spent meandering down the Anderson Valley…
Read More“We started doing these rides on the beach 23 years ago, and I absolutely love it… I can’t imagine doing anything better with my life." -Tobi Ross
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