Barrio Logan community plan not updated much
"This is crazy. Why are they asking us to do this again?"
Julie Stalmer 10:21 a.m., Sept. 22
Outdoors
A smell reminiscent of San Diego County’s agricultural past
Yuccas, orchid trees, and citrus in bloom
Orchid Trees, now at their flamboyant best in front yards and public spaces throughout the city, are showing off their large, orchidlike flowers in shades of pink, purple, and maroon. Orchid trees thrive in areas ...
San Diego's vernal splendor
Spring evident in African daisies, India hawthorn, and sycamore trees
African Daisies are bursting into bloom around San Diego, especially along the freeway embankments. The name refers to a wide variety of species belonging to the genuses Arctotis, Dimorphotheca, and Osteospermum, with flowers ranging in ...
Antelope Canyon, #nofilter
Instagram's favorite red-rock slot canyon can be done in a long weekend.
Nestled about halfway between Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, Page, Arizona, has some knock-your-eyes-out-jaw-dropping natural phenomena of its own. A small, nondescript town in northern Arizona, Page highlights its proximity to Antelope Canyon ...
March, the month of wind and bloom
Look to naked corals, ornamental peach trees, and Anza-Borrego for blossoms
The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park flowers best this month, with peak blooms expected early in the month in low-lying, warm areas like Borrego Valley, the Borrego Badlands, Coyote Canyon, and along Highway S-2 in the ...
Antelope Valley's fields of orange
Time the 3.5-hour drive north in the spring for spectacular waves of color.
Officially known as the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve, the rolling hills of the southern Mojave, 15 miles west of Lancaster, explode with color each spring as 1,745 acres of wildflowers end their hibernation and burst ...
Two more minutes of daylight per day
February beckons the sun north; brings wild surf, bloom to ornamental pear trees
The Sun Strides North in February, swinging higher across the sky each successive day. Already quite noticeable is the change in the time of sunset, currently almost a minute later per day, and sunrise, currently ...
Mission Bay marsh opens the chain-link fence — for a day
Love your wetlands on February 4
What is now the Kendall-Frost marsh reserve at the northeast corner of Mission Bay Park was acquired by the city and set aside in 1965. Since then, the De Anza Cove trailer park, Campland on ...
Groundhog Day meaningless in San Diego
Spend the day enjoying swollen county waterfalls
Groundhog Day arrives Thursday, February 2. If the sleepy woodchuck sees his shadow, so the story goes, he’ll hole up for another six weeks of winter cold. None of this means much in San Diego, ...
San Diego winters bring yellow acacias, frost-bite, and a low-lying Jupiter
Avocados, poinsettias, and laurel sumacs suffer the cold
Acacias, festooned with myriads of fluffy yellow blossoms, are brightening streetsides, freeway embankments, and backyard gardens throughout the San Diego area this month. Although many acacias are native to subtropical regions, nearly all we see ...
Winter Solstice triggers poinsettias
Also brings dark and gloomy nights
Poinsettias, a favorite of backyard gardeners, are now exhibiting their scarlet, petal-like bracts, just in time for the holidays. The onset of 14-hour-long nights triggers their behavior: In San Diego this condition is met just ...
Bird, plane, Santa? No, it's Jupiter
Aim your sights on the sky this month
Jupiter, the “king” of the planets, appears high in the southern sky after sunset. Note its creamy yellow-white color and unblinking brightness. Aim a small telescope at Jupiter anytime during the next few weeks to ...
