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The Scotts Valley High School varsity softball team looks to finish among the best in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League for a second straight year.

You know spring is here when bleeding hearts and tulips are in full bloom; when baseball season begins and song birds start their families. Can you imagine our ground frozen 30 inches down like it is in Chicago's Wrigley Field? My heart goes out to those gardeners still dreaming over seed catalogs

The other day I visited the campus of Stanford University to view something from their archives. The campus is beautiful with flowering trees in bloom everywhere you looked. I was told by a colleague that Stanford has a huge collection of trees, some planted back in the late 1880's when the university was first built and the landscaping installed. The designer, the famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, also created New York's Central Park. I wanted to find a mature specimen of a California native, the Catalina Ironwood, which is listed in their “Encyclopedia of Stanford Trees, Shrubs and Vines.”