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wild mushroom presentation in San Luis Obispo

John Dicus — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:49:56 +0000

San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden presents a wild mushroom presentation by Dennis Sheridan on Saturday, February 11 from 1pm to 2pm. Join local photographer and mycologist Dennis Sheridan for a discussion on commonly seen mushrooms in our area, the role of mushrooms as decomposers, and the beneficial mycorrhizal fungi relationships mushrooms have with plants. [...]

Blck Gold Library System E-accounts

John Dicus — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:21:29 +0000

This is a link to the local library system. If you have a 'Black Gold' library card you can enter and open an e-account, then you can download e-books for free. These can be used in Kindle, i-pads and probably phones and stuff too. Since before the Library of Alexandria people have tried to get more learning.... avoid extinction, read! [...]

Californication

John Dicus — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:37:05 +0000

California has its share of 'issues'... high taxation and tight regulation stifles business... yet these same prohibitors tend to force a work-around solution.... and the end result is that our environment is relatively clean for the tens of millions living in this space, and we have a thriving 'Underground' economy. [...]

Moonrise January 08, 2012

John Dicus — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:12:10 +0000

The Central Coast is relatively unspoiled.... Although it's been travelled and lived in for thousands of years.... it still seems very rural [...]

Weekend Escape to the Central Coast

John Dicus — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:22:41 +0000

We live in a really special place here on the Central Coast of California. We’re close to the big metropolitan cultural centers of Los Angeles and San Francisco… but we’re also a place of isolated beaches, high windswept interior plains, and coastal hills running down into the sea. Do come and visit this area anytime you are in California…. it is superb.

Here’s part of an article written by someone who spent some time here for some of our local food and wine festivals….

“Desperate for a place to get out of town and leave behind the stresses of Los Angeles, I blessedly found California’s [...]

Bridgework

John Dicus — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:14:48 +0000

they left the old boards in place while they pulled out the large spices that secured them to the structure.... traffic was able to move across when a car came along.... then they closed off the road totally while they picked up the boards and carried them to the side... they brushed, scraped and blew off the debris on the joists, then they placed the new boards down and let me and the few other people who'd come along pass through. [...]

Low-Rider Truck in Pismo Beach

John Dicus — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:03:20 +0000

I came upon this Low-Rider truck in the Pismo Beach/Grover Beach area.... It is nicely detailed and efficiently engineered. It can lower itself until the body unit rests on the ground. [...]

Savor the Central Coast 2011

John Dicus — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:40:26 +0000

The California Central Coast is a unique place. We have many varied micro-climates and have a wide variety of locally-grown foods and wines that are seen as among the best in the world. We also have a yearly Food Expo put on by Sunset and some of the local foodies. [...]

Ladder-Backed Woodpecker

John Dicus — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:24:03 +0000

They like to hop around cactus and other desert brush looking for grubs, ants and other bugs.... sometimes they will supplement their diet with cactus fruit. They like to nest in trees, but will also use large cactus. [...]

Earth Day 2011

John Dicus — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:28:55 +0000

Photos from our local Earth Day festivities [...]