Tag: northern california
member name: Jean, just the teensiest bit odd, F.
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June 27, 2007 02:45 AM EDT --
Since moving to Cloverdale about a year ago, I've realized that it is, perhaps, the dryest, hottest place that I've ever lived with the exception of Pittman, NV (just outside Las Vegas).
At the . . .
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June 25, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
I took my sweatshirt off, folded it, scooted it underneath me for padding against the gnarled, wooden trunk of the ancient wisteria vine and sat back down. Gazing up through the light-green foliage, . . .
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July 11, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
It was one of those very rare warm nights in Northern California -- one of those nights when you don't even need to wear a jacket. Such nights are rare, indeed, in Sonoma County.
I always said . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
Well... The kitty and I have been "baching" it for the last couple of days... Hubby took off on his Harley with a couple of his friends to a big concert up north where there will be beer and . . .
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December 08, 2009 02:29 PM EST --
Few people in the modern world know anything about quince... Fewer still know anything about "Chinese Quince" -- a tree so seldom seen that it could be called a complete rarity!
"European Quince" was . . .
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April 25, 2009 12:18 AM EDT --
I think I'll just let the photos speak for themselves... :o)
Well... That was nice... **sigh** :o)
From the ole singlewide here in the wild hinterlands . . .
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March 07, 2007 07:59 PM EST --
For 14 years, my husband and I lived in the same little house. It was a shack (I called it "our hovel") but, the rent was cheap, it had a large yard with huge, ancient willow tree and it . . .
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November 25, 2008 01:20 AM EST --
I had to go down to San Rafael in Marin County (one county to our south here in Sonoma) today to help O.A.O.C. ("One And Only Child") with some errands she had to run down there and I was . . .
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April 10, 2009 03:24 PM EDT --
I looked out the window this morning and, there, all by herself, was "Mama Deer"... I suppose, what with "Baby Deer" growing up and getting his first set of antlers 'n all, Mama . . .
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April 17, 2009 06:19 AM EDT --
All of the reports below appeared in the Cloverdale Reveille (Sonoma County, Northern California) in the Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 edition:
Monday, April 6
6:36 am -- Caller on N. Cloverdale . . .
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March 09, 2007 10:49 AM EST --
I thought I'd write a little something about my "plant adventures" as a way of introducing myself to my fellow "Pregnant Onion" clubbers. . . So, here goes:
After working for about . . .
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April 30, 2009 10:59 AM EDT --
Howdy, all my gorgeous, intelligent and loyal Gather friends! I hope spring has sprung where YOU are! :o)
This is what the clouds looked like today here in the wild hinterlands:
Kinda . . .
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May 17, 2009 10:00 AM EDT --
There were a couple of local, annual events that you could always count on when I was growing up in the Northern California (Sonoma County) town of Santa Rosa. One was the Sonoma . . .
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May 27, 2009 04:41 PM EDT --
You may have pondered this question before... (Well... Probably not -- but, I ask you, how else was I supposed to segway into this article?)
Well, for one thing: Dragonflies fly!
This may . . .
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June 26, 2009 03:19 PM EDT --
At our friends' house yesterday near the little Sonoma County, Northern Californian town of Graton, I kept hearing the unmistakeable sound of an Anna's hummingbird near a huge "butterfly bush" (Buddelia) . . .
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August 28, 2009 08:59 PM EDT --
As I was about to leave the other day to run an errand a few miles down the road, I heard the unmistakable sound of the "crunch! crunch!" of dry leaves just across the driveway...
The scrub oak saplings, . . .
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April 28, 2008 06:57 PM EDT --
Every year in late April, the little Northern California town of Sebastopol puts on "The Appleblossom Parade"...
Sebastopol was once the center of the Gravenstein Apple orchard business and . . .
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March 31, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Edited 07/09/07 & 09/15/2007 to include newly joined groups in distribution.
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September 01, 2007 11:57 AM EDT --
While having my morning coffee, I idly turned on the TV just for something to watch. One of the satellite movie channels was on (forgive me, conglomerate media corporations, I really can’t tell one . . .
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January 23, 2008 08:26 PM EST --
Orange hues glowing
across whispering, dry,
lazy, tawny-brown hills
that roll away to the coast. . .
Spilling from crevices of oak --
Delicate, sea-foam green lace
wafts . . .
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