what to expect when...

you come visit us in fresno! :)

i'll make coffee, juice, breakfast, lunch, dinner, we'll have plenty of wine, beer, cocktails. i'll take photos of your pet or child (when applicable), you will choose to either chill out at our house most of your stay, or venture out to yosemite or another national park for a hike. perhaps you'll want to go out on the town, maybe go to a thrift store or estate sale, go get coffee at a place where they're out of their best drink (come on fresno, get it together!)... or drop in for some karaoke at a dive bar, maybe go hear some live old timey country muisc....it'll be up to you.
also, my sister got me this vegan baking cookbook, so i may try a recipe out while you're here.
& you can definitely count on a magic hour walk.

our friends tim & michael came up for the weekend!  we went to sequoia national park for the afternoon.
sequoia national park is a slightly winding, one hour drive from our house. & it so happens that the current issue of sunset magazine (why didn't i realize earlier, how awesome this magazine is!? duh!) mentions a couple hikes in sequoia national park! we were headed to hike the congress trail & possibly muir grove & moro rock, until the park ranger at the entrance of the park, suggested we go to hume lake, and described it as "spectacular."

so we deviated from our original plan to go see this spectacular lake. i will say,  while it was a nice lake, but considering its surroundings (3,000 yr old trees, mountains), spectacular wouldn't be the word i would use to describe the lake. 
we took a quick stroll around hume lake and then, by following road signs, stumbled upon big stump basin.
we walked thru a green meadow of tree stumps, to the what seemed like, the edge of the earth. just beautiful!
nate brought his mini instax, so nice to see actual photos vs digital for some reason!

anyway, can't wait to go back and find more trails.

alright guys, til next time!
thanks for stopping by :)