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The Gardens of San Jose: Come Take the Tour
Hey Bay Area friends! Come join me this Sunday, June 3rd for a tour of several private gardens in the beautiful and historic Rose Garden neighborhood. San José Parks Foundation presents The Gardens...
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Gardens of San Jose Tour
What a day! I toured three private gardens in the historic Rose Garden Neighborhood with a long-time friend along for the journey. We picked up our tour map in the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, run...
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Winchester Mystery House
Winchester Mystery House is one of the most unusual landmarks in my city. The sprawling mansion covers four acres and stands three stories tall. Sarah Winchester, mired in grief, was convinced that...
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Sarah Winchester’s Garden
We toured the perplexing and historic Winchester Mystery House last week, in the heart of Silicon Valley. I wrote about our experience here. Before the tour, I strolled the well-groomed gardens....
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Summer Winds Nursery Fire
Summer Winds, a local nursery in the Almaden area of San Jose, burned to the ground late last night. I’m stunned. The cause is under investigation, but they think it was an accident. Summer Winds,...
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SummerWinds Nursery Rebuilds
It was a sad day for the community when SummerWinds Almaden Nursery burned to the ground in late August. They’d done business in that neighborhood for 40 years. The outpouring of support following...
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Gardens of Santana Row
A decade ago, a sleepy San Jose shopping center called Town and Country Village morphed into a mixed-use, upscale complex known as Santana Row. In this era of indoor malls, it’s a treat to walk “The...
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San Jose: Green in all the Right Places
Though San José is known globally as part of Silicon Valley, we have greener reasons to be proud. According to Bright Green San Jose, our city recycles 71 percent of the waste we generate. Wow!...
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Boomdeeadda, Boomdeeadda
I once marveled at friendships forged by letter-writing, the back and forth exchange of lives via the written word. What fun it would be to share the minutia of life with a kindred soul. I’ve found...
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Too Busy: A Haiku
Life is too busy my brown garden parched and sad summer, hot and long What a complainer, eh? I miss my gardening nirvana, that blissful state that comes from weeding, pruning, planting, bug-picking,...
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