GETTING OUT: A taste of high country exposure close to home
Getting OUT: A taste of high country exposure close to house
An early morning view from Mummy Trail toward Gilroy. Photo by: Ron Erskine For all the elegant beauty we take pleasure in in our coastal mountains, one feature is generally missing. Our neighborhood landscape tends to rise and dip in a gentle gradient as though formed with a trowel. The knife function was completed in the high country where deeply cut granite leaves dizzying exposures. The Mummy Mountain Trail at Harvey …
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‘Losing baby was hell but I’ll attempt again’
BRAVE Amanda Holden says losing her child was horrifying, but she desires to try again
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Bay Area and Beyond: San Francisco’s Japantown and Cherry Blossom Festival
In the Japanese culture, delicate cherry blossoms, which fall with the waft of a breeze, symbolize nature’s beauty and the transience of life. Those meanings take on new significance this month as 200,000 residents and tourists — mindful of the earthquake and tsunami devastation in Japan — head to San Francisco’s Japantown for the 44th annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival
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