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Bay Area | December, 2020
December was a full month, filled with holiday decor, videochats, bouncing between San Francisco, Cupertino, and Oakland, and neighborhood walking tours, which I decided would be their own post. Recap below. Our Office of Accountability Friendsgiving went virtual this year. Here’s Do-Hee presenting my secret santa gift for Eileen — seeds, and this stack of…
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Venice, California
We concluded our road trip to Southern California with a workweek spent in Venice. It’s usually overrun with tourists and beachgoers, but Venice without the crowds was actually quite charming, not least because we stayed in an amazing converted garage airbnb, which made for a perfect lush jungle working retreat. Breakfast from Gjiusta, the bakery…
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Joshua Tree, 2020
What a treat to be able to visit Joshua Tree via road trip. We visited on a girls’ trip a couple years ago, and we even had a whole portrait session in the desert. This time was a bit different, thanks to the pandemic, with Courtney and Jackson in town for work and Cassie and…
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Favorite Books of 2020
My reading habits came and went as they pleased in 2020, dipping to zero in both May and July as I became overwhelmed by doomscrolling or other things in life and in the world. But I still managed to read 34 books. They are shown above in roughly descending order from favorite (top left) to…
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Road Trip to San Gabriel Valley
A couple months ago, we decided to go on a little road trip down to Southern California, visiting San Gabriel Valley, Joshua Tree, and Venice. Of course the theme of the trip for SGV was eating. We tried various forms of mostly Asian food takeout and we found parks to walk around. See some of…
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Christina & Kelvin | San Jose Backyard Wedding
This was such a sweet way to wrap up a very strange year. Christina and Kelvin decided to go for their personal trifecta in 2020: get engaged, buy their first house, and get married! All amidst a pandemic. On New Year’s Eve, just under the wire, we met in the back yard of their new…
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Holiday Gifts, 2020
It’s become a tradition of mine to collect small gifts along my travels throughout the year and to compile them into a holiday gift for my wedding clients. But given the unusual year in 2020, of course travel was greatly curtailed. So instead, I went in the opposite direction and curated a set of very…
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A Day Trip to Healdsburg
Wine country in the fall. Here is a little peek at a short day trip we took up to Healdsburg, California, just to pick up some wines and to grab a snack atop Singlethread’s temporary roof bar. First, a stop at the Petaluma Seed Bank to pick up some new seeds for our spring plantings–…
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Cynthia & Erik | Berkeley Engagement Photography
I am delighted to share today this hearty dose of sunset magic and a brilliant love story that survives nine years of long distance and includes a marriage proposal in a lavender field which each of them had driven over ten hours to reach, in the midst of a pandemic. Cynthia and Erik met in…