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Peregrine Falcon image on banner by Cleve Nash

Genie's Pocket by Jeanie Greensfelder

First Love

My first boyfriend was my second choice:
Beth got Terry Bachman so I got Billy Cook
whose jaw hung, his tongue showing.

I looked down on Billy: girls were taller
in seventh grade. I wore his ID bracelet
and a motorcycle cap with his initials.  Read More

Great Shots by Jerry Kirkhart & Steve Corey

Our photo editors bring you some of their favorite coastal images for the month. This month's featured local photographers are Barb Ignatius, Elizabeth Haslam, Ronnie Goyette, Don Henderson, Jerry Kirkhart, Beth Sargent, Bob Canepa, Glenn Forbes, Mimi Ditchie, Sylvia Sanchez, Howard Ignatius, Patrick James, Linda Tanner, Dawn Beattie, James A. Crawford, Anita Ritenour, James O'Donnell, Cheryl Strahl, Michelle Maani, Dave Johnson, Steve Corey, Mike Baird, Donald Quintana, Dagmar Collins, Peter Boonisar, Alice Cahill, Bill Bouton, Mike Peterson, and David Pasillas. See More

One Poet's Perspective by Jane Elsdon

My love of flowers began at an early age. Back in the thirties and forties of another century in New Haven, a small rural town outside Fort Wayne, Indiana, both money and toys were scarce. So one of my earliest recollections of toys was hollyhock blossoms, a flower that grew with great abandon in fertile Hoosier soil. Put a bud and a full blossom together with only a dab of imagination and you had a fairy queen or a tiny doll dressed in a ballgown. Orchids or fuchsias were nowhere to be found in my lexicon in those days. Nor would I have ever thought hollyhocks were associated with ambition. Read More

Opera SLO by Kathryn Bumpass

Each summer Opera San Luis Obispo holds an opera camp for kids 8-16 years old. It's an ideal activity for that young person in your life who loves to sing and has a flair for the dramatic. The camp runs for two weeks July 16-27, Monday through Friday, 9am until 3pm. Rehearsals are held at the United Methodist Church on Fredericks Street. The children learn singing and acting techniques, build their own props, and get acquainted with the arts of costume design and make-up.Read More

Shutterbugs, featuring Linda McDonald

The Central Coast and photography just seem to go hand and hand.  This area is so beautiful, it just beckons to be photographed.  We moved here just over 11 years ago and I am so grateful to be living where nature predominates. Nature has always been part of my soul and I am much more comfortable in a world that has more dirt than cement. Living here is a dream come true.    Read More

 

Valencia Peak Panorama by Howard Ignatius