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The Adventure Continues… Trees
There are so many amazing and beautiful trees in California, I suspect they could form the basis of an entire series on their own! In this episode of California’s Gold, Huell visits three very special trees in Southern California. As I started watching this video, I may have felt slightly disappointed that Northern California wasn’t represented — but by the […]
UC Davis Arboretum
On my way back from spending three days in Clear Lake last week, I couldn’t resist making a stop at the UC Davis Arboretum. I had never been there before, and it wasn’t too much out of my way; so even though I was tired and looking forward to getting home it wasn’t long before I was parking in a […]
Cache Creek trail
When I visited Anderson Marsh State Historic Park (links to PDF) on a Wednesday afternoon last week, I pretty much had the place all to myself, at least when it came to humans. Even though the temperature was pretty warm, I couldn’t resist checking out at least one of the many hiking trails; so I chose the trail that led […]
Anderson Marsh farm
It wasn’t all that long ago when I featured Huell Howser’s visit to the Anderson Marsh State Historic Park as my Wednesday post; at that time I mentioned it was on my list of places I definitely wanted to see for myself. Well, I finally got my chance last week! I actually visited the park on two separate days because […]
The Adventure Continues… Center of California
Awhile back I covered the episodes from Huell Howser’s Road Trip series in which he visited the five corners of the California. Today, Huell undertakes an investigation to find the geographic center of the state — which turns out to be a little more complicated than you might expect! Huell travels in search of the geographic center of our state […]
Nature’s Gallery
One of the best things I discovered in my fairly brief visit to the UC Davis Arboretum this afternoon was the Nature’s Gallery Court. Each tile depicts a drought resistant plant in the UC Davis Arboretum’s Ruth Risdon Storer Garden, along with the pollinators and other insects that are essential to the plant’s ecological success. 75th Anniversary Project of the […]
Fields of teasel
When I encountered these dried pods at Anderson Marsh State Historic Park I mistook them for milk thistle; it wasn’t until I did a little online research that I learned they’re actually teasel. Although they produce very pretty flowers, they are invasive and tend to crowd out the native plants. According to the website Botanical Accuracy (linked above), the teasel […]
Through the barn
