What a great place to be a tourist. Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Cochella Valley, Santa Barbara and now Sonoma County - wine country. Healdsburg is a nice balance of traditional small town and upscale tourist resort stired together with wonderful plaza anchoring it all. There is a large old orange tree in my sister's front yard that just keeps dropping its tasty gold orbs for me to juice. Then there's the oriental poppy that is so dramatic, over six feet tall and covering a large plot by the sidewalk. The backyard has lemon, grapefruit, fig trees as well as more flowers and a garden space. Things grow so well here, with lots of water as it is hot. I'm only active outside in morning and evening hours. And the hay fever has hit me. I hate it when I can't breathe. No, that picture isn't my sister's house, it's the Getty Villa in Pacific Palesades. The palm and the redwood stand together in the Healdsburg plaza.
