Tag Central Coast
The usually sleepy streets of San Juan Bautista, site of the fifteenth Spanish mission along the El Camino Real, buzzed with the arrival of major Hollywood star power this past February: Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn filmed scenes from a… Continue Reading →
Like most Californians, I’m frustrated with the recent extreme weather we’re having in our state and how our changing climate is feeding wildfires burning through the west. According to Cal Fire data and the Western Fire Chiefs Association, some of… Continue Reading →
Last February, I posted a piece about George R. Stewart’s landmark ecological novel, Storm, which cataloged the impact of a monster Pacific storm on California. Stewart christened the disturbance “Maria.” In that post, I referenced the heavy rains and Sierra… Continue Reading →
Now that recent rains have completely reconfigured California’s hydrological world—and it’s a record year for California’s snowpack—I wanted to return briefly to the wildflower theme of our last post. Partly because, thanks to the rainfall, we may have a great… Continue Reading →
We live in Northern Monterey County, near California’s Central Coast region. Our back yard perches on the edge of a steep slope, chaparral mostly and dotted with coast live oaks, the slope dropping sharply to a seasonal streambed. Directly across,… Continue Reading →
