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As she peered down through the water at the south end of Loch Lomond, inveterate kayaker Alecia Morgan spied something big, round and white. Maneuvering her boat around, she slipped her paddle down three feet into the sandy shoreline and picked up a Canada goose egg,

The big, and we mean really BIG, winner at the Santa Cruz County Fair was a 1300 lb. steer which won “Grand Champion Market Steer (beef cattle)” shown by Quail Creek 4-H member Steven Katawicz. (See photo on page 1.)

There’s not a year that goes by that I don’t plant some new bulbs in the fall. I may battle squirrels, deer and shade but come spring it’ll all be worth it.  Daffodils and narcissus are safe but what would spring be without all the other gorgeous bulbs to welcome in the season?

I hear it all too often: “My new neighbor just cut down all the trees and shrubs between our properties, and now they can see right into our house. What can I plant?”

During World War II, “cheesecake” came in the form of a pin-up photo of Betty Grable or other Hollywood starlets prized by the American GI soldiers. In fact, these cheesecake pin-ups were so popular with the men that magazines full of photos of these beautiful young women were shipped overseas at no cost to the soldiers to remind them of their normal life “back home.”

Fall marks the return of the Chinook — or King — salmon to the Klamath River.

It’s mid-June, and everything in the garden is full and lush. Your Japanese maple might be getting a little too full for your taste, outgrowing its space, crowding the neighbors, looking like a boring blob. But take the fear out of pruning with these easy steps.

Recently, I had the honor to tour a remarkable garden in Scotts Valley. This horticulturalist calls himself a hillbilly gardener, but he is no such thing. Some of his plants come from as far away as Oklahoma, Texas and Hawaii.