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  • This September I Remember: Summer’s Gifts for Fall

    SEPTEMBER APPLES September temperatures in Malibu climbed into the low nineties. Beach visitors flocked to Malibu via PCH which fed thousands to our surf.  One weekend more than 5000 participants biked, swam and ran in the Malibu triathalon. Another weekend more than 550,000 beach worshipers were accounted for. Come late September weekday beach activity proves…

  • Pride of Madeira : Pride of Malibu

      The deliriously blue-purple conical shaped flowers you see shimmering along our arid coastline every Spring is the Pride of Madeira. I like to call it the Pride of Malibu. Its’ botanical name is Echium candicans which sounds like “eating candy” to me. Don’t try to eat it. From a distance this biennial subshrub looks fuzzy and soft, but…

  • THE REMAINS OF THE DAY – DREAMTIME

    THE REMAINS OF THE DAY      DREAM: I am working with Steven Spielberg in some creative capacity. We are ensconced in a craftsmen-like bungalow, the interiors of which are painted with grey green walls contrasted by reddish teak floors. The lighting is ambient but for a spot over the long worktable where I am working…