Great sights and shopping around the schools of Claremont

The Southwest in January

Experience Point Bonita Lighthouse After Dark

Top 10 fall hikes

Mash notes

Simple pleasures on the Metolius

Smart food trades

Visit Lake Powell

Soil textures

Postcards from the West

Head to Santa Barbara’s waterfront

Riding the Gold Line

Sunset goes camping

He’s in the swim

Barbecued salmon

Cardoons: Renaissance vegetables

Compost basics

Bath style

Pieris, lily-of-the-valley shrub (Pieris japonica)

Create Your Own Pondside Retreat

Retro Roast Chicken Supper

Early color for winter gardens

Spotted Spurge (Chamaesyce maculata; sometimes listed as Euphorbia maculata)

Healdsburg, California