Category — Healdsburg

We don’t have a lot of old bridges left, at least steel truss bridges that remind me of the Erector Sets I grew up with. There’s one in Guerneville, but so many RV’s got dinged up trying to pass each other that they’ve made it into a pedestrian bridge and created a functional, but un-dramatic concrete replacement. This bridge, the Wohler Bridge, not only represents the engineering past for all of us, but it crosses the Russian River between Healdsburg and Forestville at a particularly beautiful stretch.<More>

I can’t help it. I’ve always found round porches to be enticing features for a home. Maybe it was growing up in the 50’s with Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe as prototype women, but curves have always attracted me. Healdsburg’s grand dames have more of these finely detailed fronts than anywhere else I’ve been. Here are a few choice models from within a few blocks of the Healdsburg plaza.

Driving down the road yesterday I just had to stop and grab this picture of Sonoma County’s most prideful crop; the grape. One look should convince you of the correctness of the proposition that the grape is among the most beautiful, the most luscious, the most perfect expression of nature’s goodness. We are beloved creatures to have such bounty lavished upon us.