alegria ~ heaven

hello! how are you? we are back from our northern california adventure|getaway. in a previous post, part one and two happened, this is part three (favorite part!). we celebrated our wedding anniversary staying at our favorite bed and breakfast, alegria oceanfront inn and cottages.

 big river beach, mendocino

~ alegria inn ~

 we stayed in the driftwood cottage

 indeed the most charming place we've ever stayed on this continent. alegria has several cottages to choose from (that is the hard part, how to choose?) and a few rooms in the main house as well.

the driftwood gives a feeling of coming home, even though we don't have our own loft

bedroom, wood burning stove, private garden and a kitchen with a hand hewn wood table...

some of the ways we celebrated while in mendocino...

went sea glass hunting, found lots of treasure on the beach right out in front of alegria!

 saw the extremely photogenic Point Cabrillo Lighthouse

 wandered around town. across the road (behind me) is the 'love bench'

where couples sit and take in the spectacular ocean view

(no photo because it was always occupied) :)

visited the mendocino yarn shop

 watched the many migrating or wintering birds. {anna's hummingbird}

walked along the trails ~  mendocino headlands

stood among favorite trees, navarro river redwoods (a short drive from mendocino)

ate delicious organic breakfasts at alegria, complete with (stunning) ocean view

 collected treasures

a wonderful coincidence happened! this is one of my favorite knitting books,

'shear spirit' by friends joan tapper and gale zucker. 

gale,  photographer of the book, told me the lovely girl in the brown hat on the cover,

is the innkeeper's daughter (of alegria) 

and gale had stayed here while shooting the mendocino part of the book.

 eric and elaine, owner's of alegria were tickled to know this and said to 

say 'hi!' gale! 

and treasures for one reader of this blog. 

oh my goodness i found a lot of sea glass on this trip. the surf came up and there was even a little stormy weather. perfect sea glass collecting conditions. i found a book at the gallery bookshop that seems very helpful in finding your own treasure. it's filled with sea glass collecting tips. 

i'm giving away 'the official sea glass searcher's guide' and the sea glass shown here,

and a post card of alegria, to show where the treasure was found.

 to either add to your own collection, or start one.

{a small way to say thank you for all your kindness}

giveaway begins now, happy november 1st! and will end tuesday november 4.

leave a comment with an email, if you would like a chance to win

open to the world 

good luck everyone! 

mendocino links in this post:

alegria oceanfront inn and cottages

point cabrillo lighthouse

mendocino yarn shop

gallery bookshop

visit medocino