July 2009 Entries
La Costa Glen Carlsbad, the continuing care retirement community in south Carlsbad, has been awarded a 2009 Diamond Award by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) for "going the extra mile" to reduce traffic congestion. The seventh annual Diamond Awards recently honored companies in the San Diego region that promote alternatives to commuting alone to work, including vanpooling, carpooling, use of public transit, teleworking, walking, biking or a combination of these solutions. Past winners of the award include Hewlett Packard, the United States Navy, Sony Online Entertainment and the Salk Institute.
La Costa Glen received the reward in the Marketing...
- By Ray Holt -
The small stream of water released onto the bluff’s sandy soil by the drill 400 feet below the nearby placid Pacific pleased landowner John Frazier that lucky day in 1884. It ended the need to laboriously carry water from three miles away. But, Frazier wondered if even more water might be found at greater depths. Sure enough, only fifty feet deeper more water surfaced, this time with a mineral taste.
Frazier constructed a tall tower topped by a prominent windmill to encourage visitor recognition and drinking water from the well. Spas were added soon after research...
- Contributed By the Rose/Landscape Committee -
Living in California, the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), that little four petal golden yellow beauty, has to be one of your favorite flowers. With the help of some of our residents, these are starting to grow in several areas throughout the campus.
The flowers are solitary on long stems, silky textured in colors ranging from yellow to orange and flowering from February to September. They close at night opening again the following morning. The seeds are in slender ribbed seedpods. When
they dry out they split, shooting the black seeds all over.
The California poppy is...
- by Betty McCreary -
Jack Iskin’s photography that was on display in Fairway is coming down to Lakeside this month, featuring photographs he has taken throughout his many travels.
Some of his outstanding photographs were taken with a Polaroid camera. When a photo would come out of the camera, Jack would use sculpture tools and even dentist tools to create an oil painting effect before the emulsion was dried. He would then have the picture enlarged and printed on canvas.
Jack studied theater arts at the University of Michigan and 20 years of creative photography at Palomar College in San Marcos....