September 2009 Entries
- By the Landscape/Rose Committee -
Nothing speaks Southern California better than our stately palm trees. Known for their diversity and tremendous beauty, they are in abundance here at LCG. As you enter on Levante Street, you are introduced to the community by a dramatic column of 20 Date Palms lining both sides of the street. Phoenix dactylifera will grow up to 100 feet. Continuing past the safety kiosk, you see some 40 Queen Palms, Syagrus romanzoffiana, a native of Brazil named for Count Romanzoff. Along the center roadway divider, note a row of Pygmy Date Palms, Phoenix robellini. At...
- By Carole Eibelheuser -
Joan lived through the London Blitz as a young child. She saw the preparations for the bomb shelters and evacuations. Her family was separated for six years. She witnessed the bombings and fires at Coventry.
Finally at home, she took a four-year apprenticeship for window dressing, where she learned many things about furnishings and fabrics. This experience was just right to be employed at Harrods in London. While working at Harrods, she vacationed in Seattle and rode the coastline to San Diego. She fell in love with our country. She started the process to come to...
- By Carole Eibelheuser -
Our Tuesday morning knitters continue to supply the Tri-City hospital nursery with baby caps and blankets. Every time Lynne Straub collects 200 hats, she calls the heard of the Auxiliary for a pickup. The nurses in the nursery can hardly wait to see the variety of lovely hats.
Over this summer, the gals made patriotic red, white and blue caps for the 4th of July and for new babies of our service men and women. They have already started red and green ones for the holiday season. Some of our knitters have made fancy hats for children...
- By Jim Raymond and Russ Whitman -
As we wander north on the Carlsbad city trail that is the eastern boundary of La Costa Glen we will encounter La Costa Avenue and a view of the beautiful Batiquitos Lagoon. While really an estuary, it is a region of wetlands extending west to the Pacific Ocean.
In 1994 it was recognized that Batiquitos was in serious danger, closed to the ocean, silting up and becoming lifeless. This is the natural life cycle of an estuary. Silting has been aggravated by the railroad, Carlsbad Boulevard and Interstate 5 bridges that impede the tidal...