The Shed is a new shopping experience for various foods, spices and utensils you don't find in many places, along with a garage style restaurant doing interesting cheeses, fish dishes and salads. We enjoyed two salads, one of mixed beets and fruits and another of various greens, both colorfully gorgeous andexcellent. We followed these with a fish board of various salmons, herrings, anchovies, and spreads. All served with an excellent oiled and toasted bread.
After grocery shopping we returned home to start dinner--lamb burgers, brioche buns, tomato caprese with buffalo mozzarella and balsamic vinegar, grilled zucchini strips and then a peach and cherry pie for dessert. This was served with a variety of wines, including an Acorn supertuscan, a local Merlot, and several others to taste.
The conversation was, of course, lots of fun and it was an early night. Dixon and JR depart this morning for San Francisco, we leave tomorrow for Oregon.
Healdsburg is a lovely little town. Its zoning and building regulations make sure that it stays well-to-do--a permit to build can run to $100,000, so this is not a place likely to build much affordable housing. Fortunately, Sonoma County seems to run a real bus system between the valley towns north of Santa Rosa so transport into Healdsburg is available. A new light-rail service is schedule to start in two or three years to connect with the Larkspur ferries to San Francisco from Marin County to the south. However, last year's fires burned a lot of the housing Santa Rosa and who knows when the permitting system will allow significant reconstruction in this valley.
Tomorrow as we drive to Ashland across the nearby mountains, we expect to see more fire damage. It appears, though, that the area is getting back to normal quickly and where we have been we have seen nothing of the damage so far.
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