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I remember my first San Francisco Landscape Garden show, as it used to be called. The year was 1989 — not long after the event started as a fundraiser for San Francisco Friends of Recreation and Parks. My father and I loved it — all those orchids and bonsai and beautiful gardens!

It is not often you get an invite to fish your way down the Baja coastline aboard a sport fishing yacht.

“The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know, and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.”                                               The Ralph M. Brown Act, California Government Code

Recreation Dungeness Crab season opened February 11th. Sport anglers rejoiced in the thought of catching these tasty crustaceans after a long delayed season.

In my volunteer work with Hospice, we refer to the life we live after our loved one has passed as “The New Normal.” I am hearing the same phrase used for the life we are living now as we shelter in place due to the coronavirus and for our lives going forward. I think it’s appropriate, as there is much to grieve over. In addition to all the people who have died, I am also losing my old lifestyle – one that was varied, rich, and scare-free.

Here we sit with the very last issue of the Press Banner for 2019! What a year it’s been for us all here. 

The recent heat wave was one for the record books. The temps were not the highest we've ever had around here, but as each day melted into the next I kept thinking that fog, nature's air conditioning, was surely on its way. Even drought tolerant plants need a little help at these times.