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Hoods To Woods

John Dicus — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:28:53 +0000

I finally started a non profit organization that I have been wanting to do for a few years now. It is called "Hoods To Woods" I want to take disadvantaged and critically ill children on camping adventures. It kills me that so many kids live so close to the mountains and beach and have never been out of their neighborhood. There is a temp web site up [...]

Three faces of Slo-town

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:44:41 +0000

San Luis Obispo is the major town near us to the north. It’s a fairly small town with two collages and the sense of a rural community. The truck/human ratio is fairly high. Locals refer to the city and the county both as SLO (pronounced ‘slow’). We also call the city ‘San Luis’ (Lewis….. not louwee’), and another name is ‘Slo-Town’. San Luis Obispo has long struggled to retain its rural character…. the county is a major anti-growth county, and the city of San Luis Obispo severely restricts building in its limits.

There are many unique aspects to Slo-Town.. for instance in 1990, SLO became the [...]

Gracias Madre restaurant

John Dicus — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:39:07 +0000

We came upon a menu from the fine restaurant in San Francisco called Gracias Madre. It was a real pleasure, surprise and honor to see our name on the menu as their cactus source! This illustrates the responsibility one has in business as a human to help [...]

La memoria inmòvil

John Dicus — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:27:57 +0000

Fine Art black and white images by french photographer Philippe Perrin. Taken in Mexican deserts. As part of the book "La memoria inmòvil" that will be soon published in [...]

Gulls in Avila

John Dicus — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:49:03 +0000

Gulls in [...]

The Many Faces of Pismo Beach

John Dicus — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:17:11 +0000

The modern Pismo Beach has been built up over several generations, with successive groups of folks moving in from other places. As the town has grown, and the small amount of easily accessible and usable land already used for building... it was inevitable that building would progress higher up the [...]

Door of the Morning Mist

John Dicus — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:25:48 +0000

Would that I could gather your houses into my hand, and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow. Would the valleys were your streets, and the green paths your alleys, that you might seek one another through vineyards, and come with the fragrance of the earth in your [...]

Stairway to Heaven?

John Dicus — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:47:49 +0000

Stairway to Heaven? No, it's the Harbor Patrol on the pier in [...]

Inspiration Right Now

John Dicus — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:16:45 +0000

One can watch a spider work hard and find inspiration. A surfer carving glassy waters, a gymnast or a chess master can inspire. To do is the goal. don't sit... do. At the end you're more sorry about the things you didn't try, than the things you did that didn't work out [...]

Low-Tide at Shell Beach

John Dicus — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:12:39 +0000

The rocks here are very pretty. It looks like a decorated aquarium. It's nice to know that an area like this.. with people scrambling all over the rocks will still carry a good amount of sea-life that is attached to the rocks. [...]