I feel like I can’t write enough beautiful things about this wedding. It was too perfect. I feel like I should arrange a flower bouquet in honor of it. As a close second, I’m going to suggest you hear what Jenn and Taylor had to say about their day. Jenn and Taylor wrote all about their experience, the green efforts to keep the wedding safe for the environment, and all of the charities they incorporated in their wedding in our feature at Green Wedding Shoes.

Highlights of the trip: seeing my amazing friends, being that close to the mountains, visiting Joshua tree, and oddly, the staff at The Ace Hotel. The staff were all like the fantastic cruise directors from movies. The broadway singing bingo lady with the oversized orange glasses and bright jacket was my favorite, but nearly tying with her was the woman in charge of entertaining the karaoke room, which was filled with tanned middle aged vacationers. I loved how well we fit into that scene; it was such a laid back vibe. Our stay at the Ace was really incredible and every day there was relaxing.

And Joshua Tree! Joshua Tree was so beautiful. The monolithic rocks, the trees, and by happenstance, we bumped into another amazing photographer, Dorothy, who was shooting a video in the park. Even the trip to and from Joshua Tree was fantastic, with miles of wind turbines lining the roads.

If you have a trip coming up and are looking for something to do, I’ll be less helpful because we honestly spent most of our time by the pool, however! We love food and I have two recommendations for you. The two restaurants we ate that the blew my mind were Grind Brgr Bar and the pizza at Birba. Oh so tasty – both of them.  I really can’t wait to go back, but until then, here are a few favorites from the four days we visited Palm Springs.

Aside from my ventures into the world of miniature gardening, I’m also an avid Instagramographer (someone tell me – is there a word for this?) and I was beyond excited when they recently opened their loving arms to the world of Android users! I couldn’t be happier to have more friends to follow these days. Instead of the Instagram filters, I’m addicted to the new VSCOcam app (just $0.99 and so much fun), my username is “nessakphotography” and if you’re on Instagram and like photos of puppies, plants, food, etc. we might get along. Here are a few Instagram snaps from recent days and I hope you have a great weekend!

We drank wine in Dolores Park, took a double decker bus tour of San Francisco to see the Golden Gate Bridge, ate pizza slices bigger than our heads, chatted with a French couple while eating al fresco in Little Italy, and rode the trolley enough times for me to fall in love with it. San Francisco was everything I’d hoped it would be and I really can’t wait to travel back.