From Cincinnati, Ohio, Alex and I planned an offshoot road trip just across the river and into Kentucky. It was, after all, the “bourbon” offshoot of our Baseball, Beer and Bourbon tour. We spent one night in Louisville and one night in Lexington, and we visited a couple little towns and distilleries between too. First…
My first flight since 2019! What an odd feeling. But it was so wonderful to go back to my hometown and visit my mom, as well as explore both Ohio and Kentucky with Alex. We dubbed the trip the “Baseball, Beer, and Bourbon” tour. On the to-do list: Watch a game at Great American Ballpark;…
One of the great delights of living in the Bay Area is getting to take little day trips up to wine country, with so many beautiful spots to visit only an hour or two north of San Francisco. These days, after having joined Reeve winery as members and also having more photo sessions again, we’ve…
This meal was two years in the making! Alex and I first made a reservation for SingleThread in fall 2019, but that was cancelled due to fires in Calistoga that weekend. We decided to wait for a future date to book the meal. Then, of course, the pandemic hit. SingleThread was actually quite agile in…
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…
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…
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…
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–…
We have been all about the California road trip this year. A couple months ago, we headed south, about three hours south of San Francisco, to Paso Robles and the surrounding Central Coast areas. It made for a wonderful long weekend excursion. Our first stop was Bruce Munro’s Field of Light at Sensorio. It’s a…
I am so grateful to have wonderful wedding clients who revisit me as family clients over the years. This year especially, with big weddings on hold, it was my past clients who kept my business going with their portrait sessions! It was an absolute delight to photograph Adrienne and Jenton and little H for their…
I love that these three sisters wanted to give their parents this photo session as their Christmas gift. With two of the sisters living here in the Bay, one in NYC, and their parents in Taiwan, they’ve long talked about wanting to do a family photo session but never been in the same place long…
It’s time for another monthly recap! Here’s a look back at my November in the Bay. First up, lunch with some new orchestra friends at Pintoh in Oakland. Guy is three! Here’s his birthday party down in Sunnyvale. With Dave, Rebecca, Mairin, and Nikhil — all friends and past wedding clients of mine!…