Random Sonoma Scenes!

Santa Rosa

Whole Foods Santa Rosa

Whole Foods Adventure

It probably wasn’t the best timing on our part to visit the new Santa Rosa Whole Foods Market in Coddingtown…  It was late afternoon and we hadn’t eaten lunch yet, so that made everything in the store look twice as delicious. You’ll see by our shopping list that we ended up buying way too many [...]

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Wikiup Greens Wildlife

Wikiup Greens in Santa Rosa

My wife and I moved into Wikiup Greens a little over two years ago. We had never thought about a 55+ senior community to live in. I guess a combination of “just not thinking about it” plus our happiness where we were living kept it off the radar for us. Still, folks age, and our [...]

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Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, USA. As of July 1, 2005, the population of Santa Rosa was approximately 156,200 residents. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California’s wine country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont. Santa Rosa’s [...]

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Mark West Station

There are a lot of unique neighborhoods in Sonoma County. Tucked in between Santa Rosa and Windsor and bounded by Old Redwood Highway, Fulton Road, and Highway 101 is a small enclave of about 80 homes. They’re on Mark West Station Road, Donna Road, and Kay Avenue. The streets are laid out in the shape [...]

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Why do earthquakes suck?

My first significant earthquake came while I was sitting on an under-construction deck in Berkeley. The deck, still unbraced, stood still while the house it was attached to swayed pretty vigorously. It was an interesting demonstration of Newton’s Law that a body at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted on by an outside [...]

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Bungalows

Bungalow is an interesting term. Real estate people use it for almost anything small, but it actually comes from Bangalore in India where the colonial English started using it as a term to refer to the residences built for them based on traditional architecture. The key features are single story construction with a wide verandah. [...]

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Cherry Street Historical District

(Updated: Sold) I was meeting my brother for breakfast at Arrigonis yesterday and thought I’d look at a few properties while I was waiting. This currently active listing in Santa Rosa is a very nice fixer opportunity. It’s in the heart of downtown, but just far enough away from the busiest streets that it’s got [...]

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