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"The southern Sierra, the Tehachapis, the Coast Ranges, and the Mojave Desert all come together in...
Ravens versus redtail: more sound than fury
The sight of Common Ravens harassing and chasing a Red-tailed Hawk, or songbirds in turn pestering...
A day in an oak woodland
One of the most interesting of our local habitats to explore and to experience the outdoors is also...
Snowball Bush: a riot of white pom-poms
The Tehachapi Mountains have at least some snow every winter, but you can make sure that your yard...
Ron Depew: a great love for life and Tehachapi
A fine and memorable man left the Tehachapi Valley recently with the loss of Ronald Wayne Depew,...
A beautiful vine that changes with the seasons
One of the hardiest and most ornamental vines you can plant in the Tehachapi Mountains is Virginia...
Changing of the light
Now that our season has transitioned from summer into autumn, there is a subtle but definite...
Turkey Vultures passing through Tehachapi
If you've glanced up in the skies over Tehachapi in the past month or so, you might have seen lots...
Beautiful flowers that attract beautiful insects
The Butterfly Bush is a great shrub for the Tehachapi area, and true to their name, they really do...
Scorpions are some of the original land animals
One of the oldest still extant creatures on Earth is the intimidating-looking scorpion, those...
The good scents of Tehachapi
Humans tend to rely most heavily on our sense of vision to navigate and experience our surroundings,...
Pat Gracey: a Tehachapi treasure is about to turn 95
The Tehachapi Mountains are blessed with scenic landscapes, picturesque wildlife, interesting...
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“The people of this part of the county are very hopeful and appear to be alive to the prosperous f...
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"Have fun, Wini, and don't dig up anything you wouldn't be proud to bring home." – Joan Johnson J...
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"Each evening, I would take all of the money we had made that day at the Monolith Store, and I...
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“Your vocabulary is mean and impoverished, but entirely adequate to express your thoughts.” – Engli...
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"I used to break horses for Joe Mendiburu, he'd gather horses from the desert and I'd get 'em...
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"Look, my fave-rett – a booful purple fala!" – Kaylee Lambert Kaylee said this when she was thr...
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“I don’t know if I would have survived some of the things I’ve been through in my life if I didn...
Crownless but definitely the kings
There is a species of gentle snake found throughout the Tehachapi Mountains, a familiar reptile...
Hollyhocks: beautiful to look at, easy to grow
Hollyhocks are one of the few ornamental flowers that naturalize so well in the Tehachapi Mountains...
A street dance returns to Tehachapi
Tehachapi has a long history of having outside dances in the Downtown area, and that tradition is go...
Tehachapi Oldtimers Reunion: More than 60 years of sharing memories, stories and laughter
There are two events that have occurred every August for many decades in Tehachapi. One is the annua...
High Summer in the Tehachapi Mountains
It is now High Summer in the Tehachapi Mountains. After a very cool spring and early summer, high te...