“How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass. All the warm wakeful August night.” ~ Thom Gunn, “Last Days at Teddington” I know it’s too soon to feel summer is slipping away. The combination of cooler weather and local schools resuming Aug. 12 […]
“I’d give all wealth that years have piled … to be once more a little child, for one bright summer day.” ~ Lewis Carroll Sunny, hot and humid summer days bring back memories of growing up in La Crescenta. The long days with nothing to do, yet memories of days filled with so much. […]
“As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil Government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost of justice and liberality.” ~ George Washington President Washington’s words are as relevant […]
“The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these with money.” ~ Plautus Last Sunday evening, we were making our way down the coast. The traffic reflected the “full swing” of the summer season: bumper-to- bumper vehicles from Pismo Beach all the way home to La Crescenta. The […]
“We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.” ~ President George Washington Summer is almost here. The daylight hours grow longer and temperatures are on the […]
“When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.” ~ John Burroughs Warm spring days, an invitation to opened French doors. Let the fragrant and mild breezes […]
No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. ~ Helen Keller Every region in the United States has natural disasters. While the West Coast is known for its […]
“On thy graves the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! Long as the sun doth shine upon it … Long as the stars do gleam on it … Shall memory come to dream upon it,” ~ Thomas William Parsons 1816-1892 It’s Memorial Day weekend and considered the “unofficial beginning of summer” […]
“I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.” ~Evelyn Ashford In 1992, the oldest American woman to win gold in track & field (four gold in her career) The sun shined brightly upon the Crescenta Valley High School track and field on Saturday. With accompaniment from the […]
“When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every foot-step, growing, budding, blooming into the spirit of spring.” ~Dallas Lore Sharp, 1870-1929 Last weekend, outdoors was the best […]