A Window Into the Beginning of Time
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of...
Your Local Seaweed Guide
There are nearly 800 species of seaweed on the West Coast, and many of them grow right here, on the local coast. We often tend to ignore seaweed, unless we find ourselves tangled in it while swimming, but anyone...
Getting Into the (Sea) Weeds
How a Victorian Hobby Preserved More Than Memories The Victorians were big on seaweed. Collecting it was a hobby deemed suitable for both gentlemen and ladies, and ladies embraced it with energy, collecting samples, arranging them in artistic patterns...
Summer in July
Do we really live in a country where rapists are valued more than the women they assault? Where a handful of extremists with an almost non-existent understanding of human biology have the power to strip millions of women of...
Sara Plummer Lemmon: Remembering the Forgotten Botanist
For a few short weeks in late spring and early summer, Calochortus plummerae, Plummer’s mariposa lily, blooms in the Santa Monica Mountains. It’s an increasingly scarce endemic species that grows only in a few areas in the transverse ranges...
memories. of summers past.
Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in. ― Ray Bradbury,...
Dining on Memories—A Matchbook Timetravel Tour
“The past is a foreign country,” author L.P. Hartley famously wrote in his book The Go-Between. Perhaps that’s why we hold on to the postcards and snapshots, the matchbooks and other ephemera that fill the bottom of the kitchen...
Living with Lizards
I see him every day: busy hunting bugs among the potted plants on the patio, sunning himself on the warm bricks, regally perch atop a stone surveying his small kingdom from bright, inquisitive eyes no bigger than sesame seeds:...
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