Melissa Leady

I'd love to take a vacation at Crater Lake!  Every time we drive to Seattle I see signs for it, but it's just too far out of the way, so I'm always promising myself that I will make a visit some time in the future.  After my flight this week,...

I can't knock the convenience of air travel, but it always leaves me feeling so hollowed out.  I"ll need the rest of the day to recover...put my feet up, and then take Clover for a walk.

We reworked Anna's 1000 Paper Cranes into a room divider...just for fun :)

...or Time Flies.  13 moves and 41 license plates.  Getting ready to add California to our collection this summer.

Every Saturday I pick up my farm fresh eggs out off of County Road 96.  I leave the empty cartons in a cooler during the week, and on Saturday I pick up my eggs and leave my money.  Some mornings my eggs are looking back at me in surprise.

I went back to Sonoma early yesterday morning to try my poppy photo again.  I was hoping for less wind and better light, both of which I got.  I think there were about as many poppies as last week, but this week they hadn't arranged themselve...

I'm happy to announce that I've finally got my website going!  I have a few pages to work on still, but for the most part, it's up a running.   Please visit at melissaleady.com.

Such an intense shade of red with the morning light glowing on these poppies at Kunde Vineyards in Sonoma Valley.

I don't know why I was surprised to find strong winds when I headed up Sonoma Valley yesterday morning.  We've been having these winds on and off for at least a week.  Hot, dry, sustained winds, and exceptionally gusty.  I had to photogr...

I finally got back out to Sonoma Valley for a spring vineyard photo.  I was so happy to see all these poppies blooming, including so many California poppies.  We're having such a hot, dry spring that the California poppies are all drying up a...