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“Your vocabulary is mean and impoverished, but entirely adequate to express your thoughts.” – Engli...

"I used to break horses for Joe Mendiburu, he'd gather horses from the desert and I'd get 'em...

"Look, my fave-rett – a booful purple fala!" – Kaylee Lambert Kaylee said this when she was thr...

“I don’t know if I would have survived some of the things I’ve been through in my life if I didn...

There is a species of gentle snake found throughout the Tehachapi Mountains, a familiar reptile...

Hollyhocks are one of the few ornamental flowers that naturalize so well in the Tehachapi Mountains...

Tehachapi has a long history of having outside dances in the Downtown area, and that tradition is go...

There are two events that have occurred every August for many decades in Tehachapi. One is the annua...

It is now High Summer in the Tehachapi Mountains. After a very cool spring and early summer, high te...

I've enjoyed seeing a couple of pairs of California Quail (Callipepla californica) that were...

Bee Balm is a wonderful flowering perennial with big attractive blossoms that attract hummingbirds...

When you hear the name of the Kern County city of Ridgecrest, do you immediately think to yourself:...

When Bud Lutge first started coming to Tehachapi in 1936, in many respects it was like another...

“The prehistoric evidences of past races found in this region are worthy of some description. . . I...

"We moved to Tehachapi in winter, and I expected it to be cold, but what really made me realize...

“Broke is what you get when you let yer yearnings get ahead of yer earnings.” – Cowboy Wisdo...

"We didn't have any electricity when we were living up at the Mendiburu Ranch (south of Highline...

"It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!" – Kenny Che...

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” – George R.R. Marti...

“Corn should be a foot high by the Fourth of July.” – Old American Farm Saying...

Among the best-represented genera of plants in Kern County are the lupines, who number an amazing...

As you leave the Tehachapi Valley headed east on Highway 58, you approach the Sand Canyon area....

Spring can arrive slowly and leave quickly in the mountains of Southern California, so it's nice to...

There are two clocks in Downtown Tehachapi that stand in mute testimony to disasters that befell...

Wet, bountiful winters like we've just experienced benefit the irruptive wildflowers that bloom in p...