The Sea Ranch

We just went to our favorite place for Spring Break - called The Sea Ranch.  It's on the coast above San Francisco and is near a little town called Gualala.



It's very isolated and there's not a Taco Bell for hours (well, a little over an hour).  It's our way of "roughing it."  This is a place my family has been going to since I was in high school.  I don't have memories of it when I was in high school because I refused to go (so I stayed home).  But in my mid 20's I caught on to the good thing and the last couple of years we've been going more regularly.  Jon says it's his "happy place."  That might be because it's the perfect place for a photographer, when not shooting he gets to read and eat.  That's about it.  Even our cell phones don't work so we are as unconnected as can be in the 21st Century (we still find ways to get the internet).

Believe it or not, we left Tigger home this time.  Actually we left him at a Dog Ranch called All Dogs Rule where he gets to run and romp and play all day with other dogs.  His most favorite activity after stalking me.  We also took my Dad and Crystal along with us so we could have  some good "bonding" time with them.

These are some scenery pictures so you get the "feel" of The Sea Ranch.  As you can see with the first 3, the main weather was GRAY with a few sun sightings

Crystal and Gary out on one of the many "points" of bluff overlooking the ocean

 Emily, Jon and Kiel climbing on the endless amount of climbing rocks.  We have yet to be swept off to sea...

Samantha climbing up a rock wall

Gary and Jon getting in some reading on our "Beach Day."  We are sitting on Ohlson Beach in The Sea Ranch.  The beach had crazy waves that came from all directions and two waterfalls  

 We discovered a new beach near Point Arena called "bowling ball beach."  I guess because of all of the smooth boulders.  Probably not a good place to body surf but a really cool beach with lots of shells and rocks

 Bowling ball beach included an adventurous climb down to get there.  Here's Jon coming back up to the path leading to our car

Tree, Kiel, Emily, Samantha on the "Jungle Walk"  Extra muddy and green during spring

Welcome to my Blog

I've always been anti-blog (not reading, just producing) but because I requested a new camera for Christmas and received said camera and am now forced to use said camera (it was expensive), I need a place to put my pictures.  My husband suggested a BLOG!  I caved and here I am.  As you might have noticed, I'm mother to the greatest dog (another category might be the WEIRDEST dog) in the world!  His name is Tigger and he is a Shepherd mix (mixed with what?  Hyena?  Coyote?  It only looks that way-we don't know what he's mixed with.)  We've had Tigger going on 3 years and rescued him from a shelter.  We filled out a form, the lady took us straight to Tigger (I was a little disappointed cuz I thought he was sort of ugly) and put us in a play area with him.  It took us 5 minutes to be convinced that this was our dog.  We have never felt differently.  I will talk more about Tigger and his "special" qualities later.

I'm also wife to Jon Yager who is an amazingly good photographer and still works his day job to support us while wishing he could photo 24/7.  Of course he's the one who jumped on my camera request and made sure the camera he bought me was good enough for him to borrow if he wants to.  Hmmmm.........   I had to claim my camera and start taking pictures or the camera was sure to migrate to his bag.

I'm also the mother to THREE great kids and a FABULOUS daughter-in-law.  There names are Kiel and Emily, Tree, and Sam.  Kiel and Emily have been married almost two years and they both just graduated from BYU.  Kiel is starting law school in the fall.  Tree is a Sophmore and Samantha is in 8th Grade. They are all awesome kids.  I really do like them just as much as Tigger.....