Julie Maxey-Allison – The Sandpiper

Snakes in Your Grass

Of the 3000 snake species world wide 24 live in our local areas including forests, woodlands, grasslands, wetlands, and desert. Of the

Let There Be Light

A traffic light is coming to town at the intersection of Del Mar Heights Road and Mercado Drive. Mercado Drive is the

Animal Astronauts

Today human astronauts come and go, rocketing into space via a variety of public and private transports following the Soviet’s Yuri Gagarin

Rusty Boards and More

In the 1980s Rusty Preisendorfer worked on projects as a builder. The projects became surfboards and the art of surfboard shaping. By

Antics

Of the 12,000 species of ants roaming around the globe, 700 live in the US. Of the 700 just 25 prefer indoor

Deep Down Diggers

If you have never encountered a gopher or a gopher’s work, good for you! Many have not been so fortunate and have

A Worm’s Eye View

Whenever you embark on an archeological dig in your back yard in a search for notable fossils, on the way down there

Bella Velellas

Those cobalt blue “by-the-wind” sailors that recently coated our coastal beaches are Velella velella, free-floating hydrozoans that call the top of the

Photo Essay: Building Bluff Barriers

A new attempt by SANDAG to shore up the bluffs at 11th Street follows the many other projects to the south. Still,

Yummy Bugs

We all have to eat. Turns out that some plants do too. Stuck in place through their root systems, plants depend on