The waters of California’s Monterey Bay, particularly around the Santa Cruz Wharf, are home to the cute and quite fuzzy harbor seal (Phoca vitulina). The smaller of...
Windy Hill Open Space Preserve is part of a myriad of open spaces found in the hills of San Mateo County, California. Located between Skyline Boulevard (Highway 35) and I...
Have you seen any heart-shaped puffs of mist from the ocean offshore California lately? If so you were likely close to a gray whale. Gray whales arguably hold the record...
It is winter, so King Tides are here again. “King Tide” has become a popular term recently to explain an especially high tide. King Tide is not a scientifically meaningfu...
When you think of floral decorations for the Christmas holidays, one main plant comes to mind—the poinsettia. Today’s large lush poinsettias, saturated with e...
This post is a video of scenes from the Crouch Family’s Thanksgiving dinner in 1940, in Ledyard, Connecticut. All photos are by Jack Delano who took them as part of...
The city of San Francisco was destroyed in the spring of 1906 after a violent earthquake shook the city to the ground on Wednesday, April 18. The infamous quake was certa...
In 1906, the earth jolted beneath the feet of the 400,000 people of San Francisco, California. An entire cityscape of buildings, homes and parks were completely disrupted...
The 7.44 million people of the San Francisco Bay Area live surrounded by several large faults within the active San Andreas Fault System. Most of us who live here are ver...
When many people think of Alcatraz, visions of a high security prison come to mind. For most of us, it’s that island in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge in San...
