Tag: sonoma county
member name: Jean, just the teensiest bit odd, F.
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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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October 14, 2009 05:08 AM EDT --
Barbara Bull Cemetery Walk 2009 "Mariah Orpha (Church) McChristian" Vignette
( Jean's Note: Although I've written my own scripts and acted in the Walk all the years of its existence, this vignette . . .
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December 13, 2008 08:28 PM EST --
I was posting comments here on Gather, turned and looked out the window just now and one of the deer was across the driveway on the hill!
I thought this was . . .
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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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September 26, 2009 07:12 AM EDT --
About this time each year, we here in Sonoma County are usually blessed with a couple of weeks of "Indian Summer" (a fact for which yours truly is eternally grateful)...
As the harvest of the wine-grapes . . .
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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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November 02, 2008 11:26 PM EST --
So, I will simply post the photos I took of it here:
In this next shot, I zoomed in on that cloud formation in the center of the above photo at the horizon line. . . .
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October 05, 2009 09:25 PM EDT --
(Above: A guide leads one of the first audience groups to the next vignette at the Barbara Bull Memorial Cemetery Walk in Sebastopol, CA.)
For those of you not familiar with the Cemetery Walk, . . .
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July 18, 2008 06:43 PM EDT --
Since an encounter with my deceased paternal grandmother at a very young age, I have "spoken with dead people"...
As with most people with psychic gifts, however, I have little control over . . .
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June 07, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
I simply can't BELIEVE these people! (and I use the term "people" very, VERY loosely!) Here's the article from today's issue of my hometown newspaper "The Press Democrat" . . .
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October 12, 2009 11:43 PM EDT --
HAROLD: THE GHOST OF THE GRAVENSTEIN INN
(Script written and performed by Jean F. at the 7th Annual, Barbara Bull Memorial Cemetery Walk sponsored by the Western Sonoma County Historical Society, . . .
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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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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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October 30, 2008 12:16 AM EDT --
Like "my" little Anna's hummingbird, it seems that my mated pair of red-tailed hawks (and I call them "mine" because I truly believe that no one else is observing them on a daily . . .
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January 31, 2009 02:35 PM EST --
I posted another photo-essay a couple of days ago but, yesterday afternoon, I was able to capture the entire bevy in a couple of shots at the top of the driveway and I thought you might enjoy seeing how . . .
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April 17, 2009 06:24 AM EDT --
Hi, fellow Gatherers! How's your week been going so far? Are you seeing more springlike temps where you live? I hope so! :o)
Today, here in the "wild hinterlands" of Sonoma County in . . .
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April 25, 2009 07:03 PM EDT --
(Author's Note: Edited 5:12 pm 04/28/2009 to correct link to Western Sonoma County Historical Society.)
This morning I journeyed down to Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm in Sebastopol, Sonoma . . .
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