Yosemite National Park, California

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone ate lots of turkey and got really plump off of good food! Recently, I made a last minute decision to join my friends on a weekend camping trip to Yosemite National Park. Now, up until a month ago, the totality of my camping experiences consisted of a single trip by the […]

Lilies and a Sunhat

Impromptu weekend day trips to Napa Valley are the best. Especially when the weather is gorgeous. It is a little bit embarrassing to admit, but despite living in San Francisco, which is a brief 45 minutes from the edge of wine country, I rarely made it up to wine country for the first five years […]

Jeanne Begins Again

My cousin gifted me a 1970s Canon AE-1 film camera for my birthday several years ago. For the first year and a half, the camera languished in my closet because the thought of handling film was, when compared with the immediacy of my DSLR Canon Rebel T1i, too much trouble. One day I wandered into […]