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HIDDEN VILLA: Native Plant Sale

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If it is October it’s CNPS Santa Clara Valley Native Plant Sale… didn’t find the Ceanothus‘Centennial’… but found five plants to start the California native pots… Penstemon heterophyllus ‘Margarita BOP’ Monardella macrantha ‘Marian Sampson’ Sedum spathulifolium ‘Broad-leaved Stonecrop’ Dudleya caespitosa … Continue reading

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MOVIE NIGHT: Inside Out

Fun family film… refreshing story… in San Francisco… and the story artist is… After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – conflict on how … Continue reading

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CALIFORNIA: Native Herbs

Thinking of the Monardella villosa ‘Russian River’… hummingbird sage… native herbs… found this native herbs story and on CNPS Flora… ordered them and the Origanum vulgare ‘Compacta Nana’… finally starting our California herb garden!

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CALIFORNIA NATIVE: Galvezia Speciosa!

The California native design of our garden is beginning to take shape… found many plants we liked… got inspired by others… created spaces for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds… Here are some of the latest additions… …Galvezia Speciosa – “Island Bush Snapdragon” … Continue reading

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The Silicon Valley Science Fiction Short Film Festival

Long story short… science fiction 🙂 Multiverse Dating for Beginners Ultra Tennis

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NASA: Mars Roadshow

InSight – Studying the ‘Inner Space’ of Mars InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years … Continue reading

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PACIFIC GROVE: Asilomar

Back to and from the Labor Day trip tradition… the soul trip to Asilomar… amazing wildlife encounters… butterfly houses… convoluted beach walks… dunes, deers and wildflowers… gloomy weather… history and heritage… rock mirages… Julia’s yumminess… and the rest goes without … Continue reading

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STANFORD: The Enduring Passion for Ink

A PROJECT ON CONTEMPORARY INK PAINTERS BY BRITTA ERICKSON

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CITINERARY: Magritte’s Fifth Season

A curious children itinerary for a playful exhibit… René Magritte: The Fifth Season is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the artist’s late career, from the 1940s through the 1960s, a period of remarkable artistic transformation and revitalization. The … Continue reading

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SANBORN PARK: Robin Hood

Not exactly Shakespeare… just a wonderful production in the hood! Loved it, kids and all! Sanborn added a Magritte-light… to a bright and warm starry night!

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