Random Sonoma Scenes!

Windsor

Windsor

Windsor was a languishing small town just north of Santa Rosa until the 1980′s. A surge of construction followed for the next several decades, and the town has grown to over 25,000 people vaulting past neighboring Healdsburg. New construction of shopping including a Home Depot and WalMart has made Windsor a shopping destination as well [...]

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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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Wohler Bridge

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 [...]

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Windsor's urbanism

Many long time Sonoma County residents have been a little skeptical of Windsor. In the immortal words of Gertrude Stein about her childhood home in Oakland, “there is no there, there.” That may have been a little unfair since Windsor has a long history as an important farming town and market center. The residential building [...]

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