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My garden is rustic and quirky (fun garden art, but watch your step!). In about 2006, I began to enhance the two types of oak…
Shasta County’s Shasta Snow-Wreath Thanks to all of you who sent in letters of support to California Fish and Wildlife Commission recommending the acceptance of…
The 27th Annual Siskiyou County Mother’s Day Wildflower Show is online this year! It will be available all day on May 10, 2020, on all…
The following photos are from cruising around our yard, achieving a mind cleansed of SARS-CoV-2 thoughts. You see the scenes of the vibrant blooming native…
Spring is bustin’ out all over, and the magnificent bush poppies on Bailey Cove Trail are in their prime! So are the irises and the…
Back on January 18 of this year, I visited this trail in the good company of Shasta Chapter CNPS members Bob Madison, Shirley Martin, Judy…
The Yana Trail offers archaeology, animals, and wonderful wildflowers, all on a relatively flat trail on the bluff above the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento…
On April 13, 2020, Chris Gray and I took a walk at Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve (observing proper social distancing, of course). It was a beautiful…
Here’s a walk that will get your heart pumping and give you a 360-degree view of Redding’s surrounding mountains. The first half of the hike…
Here’s a nice walk with virtually no elevation gain. The well-marked trail passes through the riparian area along Battle Creek. Coleman Fish Hatchery is…
I took a little drive out Millville Plains today. It’s carpeted in white, yellow, and purple. The budding oaks have left me with a bad…