Where can you go to escape the hot weather and smoky, hazy skies? How about a nice hike to clear blue alpine lakes with giant granite slabs surrounding them in the nearby Kaiser Wilderness?
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You Can't Fool The Dentist – Floss!
Written by Dr. Adrian Buca Before a dental checkup, have you ever found yourself desperately brushing and flossing your teeth in hopes that your dentist won’t know you haven’t been flossing regularly? Flossing is so easy to forget about. Usually we think brushing is enough and that everything will work itself out at the next cleaning. Not so! Over time, ...
Read More »Pecking Order
All is well at the backyard bird feeder. The towhees, quail and all the birds are happy.
Read More »Hiking and Fishing High Lakes along the Mono Pass Trail
We had some beautiful high lakes all to ourselves and those views of Mammoth Mountain, Kuna Crest, Mt. Gibbs and Mt. Dana were well worth the trip! Plus the fish were jumping right onto my hook!!
Read More »An Old Fashioned Country Fair
At the annual Gravenstein Apple Fair in Sebastapol. Outstanding displays, music, apple oriented food, and family fun in a beautiful country park. We spent hours listening to Poor Man’s Whiskey and a Zydeko band. Bought a huge bag of just picked gravensteins for $5.00 even though we have our own apple tree at home. Next week it’s to the Cotati ...
Read More »Lazy Camping at Bridalveil Campground
Did you know that when you go camping in Yosemite, you aren’t required to hike? I practiced the fine art of doing practically nothing at Bridalveil Campground in Yosemite. I watched the critters in the campground, watched butterflies showing off on colorful flowers, stared into a campfire in the evening, watched the stars at night and listened to coyotes from ...
Read More »Ginger Foust
My family would say that my interest in design began in my early teens when I boldly decided to “redo” a small bathroom in my family home when my parents were away for the weekend. The then trendy blue and purple floral wallpaper of the 60’s beckoned me and my ever-positive mom returned with the reinforcement that urged me on. ...
Read More »Tuolumne Meadows to Elizabeth and Nelson Lakes Hike
Early morning reflections of Unicorn Peak, surrounding mountains and trees onto Elizabeth Lake’s glassy waters started our morning right. Wildflowers in all imaginable colors gave us quite the show along the trail, especially those pink one! And we had Nelson Lake all to ourselves!
Read More »The Charles Schultz Museum
We stopped in for a visit at a wonderful museum in Santa Rosa, home of Charles Schultz, creator of Peanuts. It’s worth at least a couple hours and will make you feel good about him and his life and attitudes
Read More »Tuolumne Meadow to Lower Gaylor Lake Horseback
Did you know that you could camp with your stock in and around Yosemite National Park? The Wawona and Bridalveil Creek horse camps have two sites each and the Tuolumne Meadows horse camp has four sites. Friends invited me to join them at the Tuolumne Meadows Horse Camp for a ride and I jumped at the chance to “ty yi ...
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