To Nature

https://chaparralwisdom.org/2025/05/31/appellate-court-to-cal-fire-youre-making-the-landscape-more-flammable/#respond California Chaparral as seen in Santa Monica Mountains California Chaparral Shrubs Cover the Rock Formations Santa Monica Mountains https://videopress.com/v/SjuvsLnM?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Santa Monica Mountains, Chaparral Help support the local eco system by incorporating native plants in your gardens. California Native plants support and provide shelter to a wide range of insects and wildlife and bring beauty … Continue reading To Nature

California Chaparral vs CalFire

Within a few weeks, Nature in California will be facing a decisive event.A twenty year legal effort to get Cal Fire to develop a plan to save lives and property from wildfires, rather than clearing millions of acres of native habitat, will finally be heard by the California State Court of Appeal.Our arguments are strong … Continue reading California Chaparral vs CalFire

Between the Moss and the Shrubs

Will you hear Peace. https://videopress.com/v/O1BlCnat?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true California Chaparral among the Rocks It is important to recognise, You ARE a part of Nature. And if Needed… Toyon, California native plant You Can Grow through the rocks. You can learn the quiet wisdom and eternal peace from observing nature. It is poetic. It is beautiful. It is the … Continue reading Between the Moss and the Shrubs

Wildfires & Chaparral Wisdom

I would like to thank Mr Richard Halsey and everyone at California Chaparral Institute for sharing their knowledge and offering the invaluable advice. Click to view the article https://chaparralwisdom.org/2025/01/10/how-to-respond-to-the-recent-wildfires/

How much do you appreciate the silence?

This place presented me with the greatest gift of silence and unique alternative beauty only an open space can provide. Soda Lake, Where the toxins dissolve in the heat of summer and thoughts drift away into ... Silence These photographs offer a general feel of the soil texture, native vegetation and the area surrounding the … Continue reading How much do you appreciate the silence?

If You break, keep on flowering.

This plant can do it, so can you Silver Ragwort The creation we are looking at here is a Mediterranean native, patina silverish sage colored plant with deep yellow flowers. That is how I see it. They call it Dusty Miller for whatever reason. The plant that I saved from a local Ralphs grocery store … Continue reading If You break, keep on flowering.