There are so many songs written about California, about love and about California Love. After spending a sweet afternoon with Samantha & Patrick in San Francisco I can understand why. They are midwesterners on a west coast adventure, and so far they have loved exploring and coming to know their beloved San Francisco. On this particular day it was all about showing off a few of their more romantic favorite spots, chosen in part because each locale will likely play a part in their future memories of their time in California. They meandered through the Palace of Fine Arts and spied hummingbirds, felt the sun warm their skin and reveled in the beauty of it all. Then they were more than happy to reminisce about how not too long ago Patrick proposed to Samantha in the long shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge. And so, with the Pacific Ocean and its gulls providing the soundtrack they sunk their toes in the sand and just soaked all that California love up. Truth be told: words aren’t really required to summarize how sweet and lovely it all was. The pictures will do: