I'm a gardening fool, so weather has always mattered to me. Whether the season is going to be right for tomatoes or make for better than usual roses isn't earth shaking information to the general public. On the other hand if you follow every diet guru's diet advice to eat plenty of fresh fruits a
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05/31/2010
It's a little early to start planning the bottle tasting, but a Sonoma County grape is still worth sharing even if you can't drink it. If you want to make dolmas, now is the right time to gather your leaves. If you're more interested in the wine, you'll have to wait. This emerging grape is at le
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05/30/2010
I'm writing about credit for home buyers on my Sonoma.net site since more of my transactions are running into obstacles during the loan approval process. Rules are changing and underwriting standards have gotten really hard to meet. In one case, my buyers have stellar credit, but the property isn
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05/30/2010
Bill Burke wrote a post about "writing the offer" that made me think about the timeline issues our buyers face. For many buyers who were in the market this spring for the first time homebuyers tax credit, the entire experience was new. Other buyers are old hands at the purchase of a home, but eve
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05/29/2010
Rohnert Park was ground zero for REO sales in Sonoma County last year. Residential sales in this home to Sonoma State University during January through April of 2009 was all about REO property. Since then, short sales and open market sales have begun to take their shares of the market back from b
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05/23/2010
I like sequels. They avoid the hassle of relearning the main narrative thread and keep continuity with the characters. I introduced bottlebrush blooms last Sunday with a flower just starting to emerge. This week we see what a bottlebrush flower looks like when half of the buds have opened to rev
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05/23/2010
Sonoma County Sales Trends It's been awhile since one of my graph-a-palooza posting sessions, so I decided to look at some of the trends in residential sales in Sonoma County. Market trends aren't always visible in the short run, so I grabbed sales data from January 1, 2009 until the end of April
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05/18/2010
Australia has given us many beautiful plants including a wide variety of Eucalyptus trees and drought resistant shrubs. One of the most colorful imports is known as the Bottlebrush which features amazing red flowers that look almost exactly like the kind of brush you use to scrub bottles. I took
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05/16/2010
There is a tech battle brewing between Apple and Adobe. The two companies partnered to develop desktop publishing more than 25 years ago and there is a wonderful shared history. Recently, however, debates over the role of Adobe's Flash technology have created a vigorous intellectual debate. I may
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05/16/2010
The winter is gone and my bleeding hearts are back. They'll only bloom for a few months, but are a lovely, graceful perennial that does well in partial shade. This particular plant shares a big planter with some ferns and they both seem happy to live together. The botanical name for the bleeding
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05/02/2010
