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A Few Days in Healdsburg, Summer 2015

·Healdsburg, California·#summer#family trip#healdsburg#brewery#sonoma-county
A person in sunglasses and a blue top holds a smartphone, taking a photo of two beers on a wooden table.

A few days in Healdsburg, and the first afternoon settled into the pattern the rest would follow. Beers at Bear Republic — founded right here in 1995, the window still says EST. MCMXCV in Roman numerals — at a picnic table out back, one pint down before the other had barely been touched.

We found shade under a big old tree near the plaza afterward, which in this heat counts as an activity in itself.

The girls had their own agenda. Pool time in matching yellow-and-navy suits, and one of them spent a session at a clay table in an apron already streaked with white handprints, rolling out coils longer than her arm.

Coffee came from the Shed, where the espresso machine sits under a stack of saucers taller than the machine itself. There was a sunflower outside a storefront on the walk over, big as a dinner plate, and we still have two more days of this.

A person in sunglasses photographs two beers on a wooden table outdoors with a mint-colored smartphone.A salmon-colored building with Bear Republic Brewing Co. signs, showing a person's reflection in a window, with plants below.A reddish-brown building facade features a Bear Republic Brewing Co. sign above a window and green plants below.Two smiling people in sunglasses take a selfie outdoors, with trees and cars in the background.Two young girls in black and yellow swimsuits sit by a swimming pool, looking towards each other with slight smiles.A young child in a blue apron smiles at a table with clay and tools, wearing a beaded hair accessory.A bright yellow sunflower with a green center is positioned in front of a window reflecting a street scene.Sunlight illuminates a cafe counter with a green La Marzocco espresso machine, white cups, a Chemex, and coffee bags.

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