If you are familiar with the natural areas around the Palos Verdes Peninsula, you probably know about the South Coast Botanic Garden, an 87-acre stretch of land that holds more than 2,000 different species of plants from around the world.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Native Plant Fall Butterfly Baskets from the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
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Space offers the ultimate location for preservation of objects we put there. Satellites from the dawn of the Space Age still roam the heavens, some seven decades after they were lobbed into the heavens.
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Eugene Daub, a local sculptor with five decades of artwork under his belt, has a new project in the works. He and a team are compiling a book to document his pieces of artwork.
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Local geologist Joe Cocke gave a lecture on Oct. 11 at Hesse Park about the changing Palos Verdes landscape and his local fossil discoveries around the Peninsula.
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Canines from high kill shelters wing their way to new homes across the friendliest of skies aboard volunteer pilot Zack Bryson’s 1979 Grumman Tiger plane. Zack’s “Freedom Flights” begin in a hangar at Torrance Airport.
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On September 17th Hollywood lost a bright star with the passing of Mitzi Gaynor at age 93.
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As a landscape/travel photographer, I travel all over the place. But I spend way more time here in the South Bay than everywhere else. And my favorite spots to photograph are the tidal pools of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
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November is a month of transitions—a time when autumn’s vibrancy slowly fades to winter’s calm. It’s a time of gratitude, warmth, and reflection.
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Peninsula Fog Landscape Moment
How lucky we few to greet fog night or day, we lucky few who live near the bay
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As I take my daily walk, at this time of year, I find myself marveling at the fun and creative decorations that I see. When I was growing up in England we did not celebrate Halloween at all, so I still feel like a kid when I see all the decorations!
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The roots of Halloween, or All Hallows' Eve, is thought to have originated from a Celtic festival dedicated to marking the beginning of winter and the end of the annual crop cycle. The day was believed to be the moment when the souls of the dead would travel to the underworld, weakening the barriers between the living and the dead.
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1952, refinery workers took a huge vat of black, orange, and white paint and put it onto a large tank in Wilmington, CA and turn this into a jack-o'-lantern. this has become a Halloween tradition that is going on for 65 years.
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Gingerbread houses are a fun holiday activity to do with the kids around Christmas time so why not take the same activity into your Halloween celebration.
For my Haunted Chocolate Spice houses, I use the gingerbread house cookie cutter and decorate it with Halloween candy and use chocolate molds to create spooky skulls, tombstones and ghosts. For the roof, I used shredded wheat cereal. The Death by Chocolate Brownie gives the perfect texture and ground to place your haunted house.
I will be teaching how to make this Haunted Chocolate Spice house at Le Gourmet Culinary (www.legourmetculinary.com) October 24th and 31st 9am.
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Ghost hunting is a popular hobby for many people, and one of the most common ways to try to find evidence of ghosts is through photography. While there is no scientific proof that ghosts exist, there are many people who believe that they have captured images of ghosts on camera.
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Fall Beauty By Photographer and Adventurer Dianne Gowder
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A local nonprofit group has spent the last five years cleaning up the oceans and other waterways.
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While there are many good wineries and wines coming out of Livermore Wine Country, I have selected three to highlight.
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