It is the eve of December. The first frosts arrived on the valley floor only recently, but multiple hard frosts that will knock our tender plants down is in the forecast for the coming week. The air is crisp, the… Continue Reading
PHOTO: Hard to beat a fresh peach. It’s almost Thanksgiving – the soil is cooling, the garden is slowing, the nights are longer as we move inexorably toward the solstice. The recent storm that swept through the North State bringing… Continue Reading
The beauty of the garden in winter is a unique pleasure: fragrant, fresh evergreens, bright berries, frosty mornings. Photo: Frosty Indian hawthorne on a cold North State morning. Seasonal greens, winter fruits, and sculptural cones have long been associated with… Continue Reading
The National Park Service and California State Parks are gearing up for their annual “Old Time Holiday” celebration on Saturday, December 7 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Follow in the footsteps of miners who in 1849, after preparing a holiday… Continue Reading
To honor America’s service men and women, Lassen Volcanic National Park will join other areas managed by the Department of the Interior in waiving entrance fees Saturday, November 9 through Monday, November 11. “We hope that visitors will come to… Continue Reading
Consider the lilies of the field – and those of the home garden. Heralds of summer and heat, they are trumpets of abundance, turk’s caps of beauty. Abundant in color, size and blooms. You can press your face into theirs… Continue Reading
PHOTO: Salvia ‘Phyllis’ Fancy’ catching late-fall morning light. Some months are all about the busyness of doing and getting things done – April and December, for instance; some months are all about just being and surviving – the overexposed heat… Continue Reading
Drive the roads of the Valley floor of Northern California this time of year and the world stretches out in front of you as though it goes on forever, as though you can see forever. Dun colored fields move in… Continue Reading
We have an exciting opportunity to build great cities and towns in our region by making bicycling safe, convenient and fun. This is not about thinking bikes are cool and its not about weekend exercise and recreation in our beautiful… Continue Reading
Fall reliably brings two things to Northern California – the Fall Membership Drive at our regional public radio stations and Mushrooms. On this last weekend of the Fall Membership Drive for Northstate Public Radio, I thought I would re-post an… Continue Reading
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