One of the great joys of our wedding celebrations was being able to stay for the whole weekend on site at the villa overlooking the venue. What a beautiful place to spend quality time with our friends and family! Here are some of the behind-the-scenes moments from my camera and phone from a truly wonderful…
December recap! What a month. We were somehow traveling half the time and yet still had such an abundance of wonderful adventures with our friends here at home. Jumping right in, here’s our flight home from our honeymoon to Portugal and the Canary Islands, passing through NYC. Library date with Cassie, visiting the brand new…
It’s the final leg of our honeymoon! Since it was November, we wanted to get a bit closer to the Equator in hopes of finding warmer weather. So we chose Gran Canaria to round out the vacation after Portugal. Gran Canaria is the second most populated Canary Island and thus part of Spain, although it’s…
As the capital and largest city, Lisbon is generally lauded as the must-visit city of Portugal. But rather unexpectedly, we actually enjoyed Porto more. Of course this was very skewed for various reasons, not least of which is Alex got food poisoning and was sidelined for two days. Plus, we arrived in Lisbon on a…
The Douro Valley is one of the most beautiful wine regions in the world. We visit our California wine country (Napa, Sonoma) all the time, but we were told that it would be well worth the time and effort to take a day and drive from Porto to the Douro Valley, and that was absolutely…
Welcome to my November recap! We start with a wonderful Office of Accountability meeting. My brother-in-law’s birthday! And a check-in with Tiffany. Visited the Hoover Institute at Stanford for a special screening of Invisible Nation, an insightful and heartfelt documentary about Taiwan. Taiwanese America unite! (Photo from Ho Chie). This was a month of multiple…
October recap! We began with a San Francisco Symphony concert Featuring a San Francisco premiere of “Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!” by Wynton Marsalis and a classic, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Office of Accountability Our first visit to the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at SFMOMA. These pumpkins look very round in photos, but you might be surprised at…
Thanks to my lovely clients who invited me up to photograph their session at Sea Ranch, Alex and I made a whole weekend of it and enjoyed a wonderful road trip up the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts and Anderson Valley. In fact, it was much like our road trip just over a year before, when…
September in the Bay! This was also the month we went to Los Angeles and New York, and yet we still managed to pack so much in to the rest of the month too. Starting with the Office of Accountability’s monthly meeting. Hosted by Eileen, shortly before she moved into her new house! Kina Grannis,…
While we were on our lovely farm stay at Vernon Street Farm this fall, Alex and I and made a little day trip over to Cooperstown, New York. If you’ve heard of Cooperstown, it’s likely you are a baseball fan or know someone who is, because it is home of the National Baseball Hall of…
Alex and I got to take a brief road trip down to LA for Labor Day weekend since I had a wedding to photograph down there. Our friends Jon and Pei were kind enough to host us, and we managed to squeeze a lot into our brief visit! First, scenes from our drive down: a…
August, my friends! It was a very full month for us in the Bay, since we were actually around for the whole month, minus one road trip up to Davis, which I’ve still included in the Bay Area recap below. First, a little sewing project for some dear friends of mine! This was a pattern…