Tiny adventures! Off to the sea-side of Northern California a few weekends ago, to stay in a tiny cottage at St. Orres. So good! So cozy! So filled with black widow spiders!
Recommended by the lovely Miss Kristin of Hiss and Hearse, St. Orres is a crazy onion dome hotel and tiny cottages built by hippies in the middle of nowhere. Therefore, awesome. Don’t believe that “Fine Dining” lie on their site, though. While it was incredibly comical (watermelon…salad? shaped like a log cabin?) fine was not a word I would apply to it. I got the salmon and fed it to a cat on the grounds who looked like he’d been left there, all skinny and ragged. He was into salmon and slept in our cabin until a skunk sprayed him in the night and he had to be banished from coming back in.
But despite the dining and the wanting to take the cat home, the whole weekend was lovely and cozy and escape-y and dreamy.
Spot the gnome.
Stained glass turret over the hot tub in the spa pavilion. Yes, please.
We kept driving up the coast on Sunday, thrifting ~ jadeite bowls and vintage patterns ~ going to the beach, stopping at cemeteries, and finding a pumpkin patch.
Salt water taffy shack.
Someone was shooting things in this cemetery, we didn’t stick around.
Curious chapel on the side of the road. It’s like being underwater in a mermaid’s house.
We picked a white one. And a wee calf licked our hands.
Stopped at a soda fountain in Petaluma for milkshakes.
& home again, windswept and happy.
roxi
3 months ago
i’ve stayed near there before, and been in that church! not in that amazing hotel, tho. so lovely. that area is also where hitchcock filmed the birds.
jennifer
3 months ago
oooh that all looks wonderful!
april
3 months ago
My heart hurts looking at these photos! Everything looks so beautiful.
Angeliska
3 months ago
Wow, you just made me hyperventilate from all this gorgeousness!
How I wish I could shrink small and fit in your packet to accompany on such marvelous adventures! I will live in the mermaid chapel, please.
Pumpkins and milkshakes and jewels and ocean and magic oh my!
I collapse from beauty overload now.
p.s. Oh heavens, thank you one million times for the wonderful parcel.
I’m drinking the black rose tea right now and am totally absorbed in the crow girl book! I love you! Yours is late (of course) but very juicy…
verhext
3 months ago
yayyayay. we are the crow girls. i was a little embarrassed, sean gave me the book and was like “this is you.” brat-babies, in a good way.
Mermaid
3 months ago
Oh my goodness beautiful. I love your blog.