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Following up on my posts about what I loved about living and bicycling in Sarasota, FL and Chapel Hill-Carrboro, NC, here are 7 things I loved about living and bicycling in Northern California. In the middle of graduate school, I lived in Sunnyvale for a summer, worked in Redwood City, and did most of my grocery shopping in Palo Alto. So, despite being 3 different places, they were sort of one place to me and I’m combining them all for this.
After a short while Klaus had reached the edge of the community forest. He crawled out of the frigid stream, up the river bank and shook the water from his dense fur, then did some superficial grooming with his claws.
The sun had finally found her way to the Pacific Northwest, and all of the trees seemed to be lit from within from her glowing warmth. The beaver rolled over onto his back to soak up some of the sun’s rays, and just stared up at the green forest canopy. As he gazed up through the towering trees into the bright sky, he thought that he saw something odd, possibly some kind of a small shining orb of light moving through the leafy branches, but he was not really sure.
To wrap up National Bike Month, I’m doing a little series on what I loved about living and bicycling in the various places I’ve lived and bicycled. (But don’t worry, even after this month, I’ll do plenty more writing about bicycling as well.)
To start with, I’ll start with the first city I lived in, the city where I started bicycling as a main mode of transport and gave up my car. Living in Sarasota, Florida from birth until the age of 22 or so, I know that city better than any other.
So you are interested in growing plants in your soil. You have picked up a packet of seeds and read on the back: This plant prefers a “loamy soil.” You wonder, what does this mean, and how can I tell if my soil is right? This guide will give you a brief introduction to types of soil, and how to tell what soil you area has.
