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This wildflower year in the Tehachapi Mountains may not be a superbloom (whatever that means), but...

"When you're behind the curve, time moves twice as fast." – LeRoy Rice LeRoy is a retired Kern C...

“This is no hill for steppers.” – Sylva Peck Perry Sylva was a pioneering Kern County woman who w...

“Here comes my neighbor – he’s a big wheel. You know what a big wheel is? It’s something that go...

“New churches and new bars in Tehachapi tend to be well-patronized.” – Capt. Richard “Dick...

“Oh how I long to muse on the days of my boyhood, Though four score and three years have fled by s...

“Don’t forget, when you marry someone, you’re not just marrying them, you’re also marrying into th...

“You gotta run with whatcha brung.” – Stock Car Racing Rule This was an early rule in dirt track...

“Living is tricky, like licking honey off a thorn.” – Old Folk Saying...

This winter and spring we've had the good fortune to have an average amount of precipitation, about...

You never can tell from one year to the next which wildflowers will benefit most from that winter's...

Bob Parker, 56, was a big-hearted Tehachapi rock and roller who passed away on March 20, 2012...

As many of us can attest, the Tehachapi Mountains can be a difficult place to get plants to thrive....

On a misty Tehachapi night, following rain earlier in the day, a small creature emerges from a...

Rosemary is an attractive, hardy little shrub that many people associate with the Simon and...

A life-giving spring produces clean, clear water every day, filling a couple of small ponds that...

This loveable plant, like so many others, is known by several different names, including Apricot...

I have a variety of antique items handed down from my Tehachapi family, but one of my favorites is o...

Nuwä basketweavers were some of the finest basketmakers in California, a state that historically has...

We lost a born leader of a man and a tireless supporter of the Tehachapi Mountains with the recent...

"I was born in a tent – people called them 'canvas cabins' back there – in 1916 in Henrietta, Okl...

“I drove the Grapevine (now Interstate 5) through the Tehachapi Mountains in 1925, hauling f...

“It’s easy to be brave from a distance.” – Lakota Sioux saying...

“Why value the present hour less than some future hour?” – Anna Comstock...

“I’ve lived in a lot of places, and you can find something wrong with all of them. The Teh...