Really all you need is your sun hat, cover up, outfits for dinner, a bikini and a bike. Wheels and water really mean bikes and bikinis here! Here, it’s so easy to just drop back [...]
Laguna Canyon is well known for its spectacular art festivals. If you have been here, you know you should get your tickets now. Throughout the year, hikers and local artists roam the Laguna Wilderness and [...]
Seven acres of garden heaven await you at Roger’s Gardens , located in Corona del Mar. Here, you’ll find wave after wave of lush landscaping, color and greenery, exquisite rooms and galleries filled with collectibles, [...]
Recently I visited the Irvine Museum to see the All Things Bright and Beautiful Exhibit. These are Southern California impressionist paintings, also known as Plein-Air, created from 1890 to 1930. Many have noted, they are [...]
At first glance, the Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley, looks just like a typical neighborhood park. However, that perception changes into reality as you explore the park, and discover its long list of unique [...]
If the sound of the Beach Boys’ songs “Good Vibrations,” or “Surfin USA,” bring back a lot of good memories, it might be time to treat yourself to the surf world of Huntington Beach. Just [...]
It starts the moment you pull into the parking lot and walk into the state of the art Environmental Nature Center Green Building, the first of its kind in Orange County. It’s an 8,500 square [...]
We all know which rules to abide by when we go to a wildlife preserve. Usually, that means that picnics, bikes and pets are usually not part of the experience. So we typically share the [...]
Corona del Mar is part of the city of Newport, but when you drive down Pacific Coast Highway and turn onto a cluster of streets named after flowers; you may feel as if you have [...]
The minute I stepped onto the trail at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, a huge jackrabbit bounced right across me. He paused for a moment while waiting under a nearby bush, trying to gauge my [...]
Over the years the Shipley Nature Center, became a dense tangle of overgrown, exotic and unkempt plants in a dying wilderness. However, by and because of the local grass roots efforts from many people seeking [...]
Driving along Ocean Avenue on the to the Long Beach Art Museum, I always marvel at the timeless appeal of the ocean bluffs. Since the early 1900’s the Art Museum, and many of nearby large [...]
It was a little cool, and a bit overcast, as I stepped out of my car at the El Dorado Nature Center’s parking lot. But my welcoming committee was ready–right there to greet me was [...]
As you probably saw on the news, Laguna Canyon was ravaged with recent winter storms. Pacific Marine Mammal Center was especially hard hit, and had to evacuate their mammals, which included Cranberry, the little seal [...]
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