This Week in H’burg: Organ pipe cacti
This Week in H’burg is a weekly column featuring photos and fun facts from local photographer Pierre Ratté. Each week we’ll feature a new photo from Ratté along with a fact about the subject matter of the photo.
An Unforgettable Elephant-headed God
Over a period of two years, pictures of this sculpture surrounded by a hedge at the crossing of two streets in Healdsburg failed to make the cut.
I’ve wanted to write about it. I walk or drive by often. Several attempts to find the right...
This Week in H’burg: Roses
This Week in H’burg is a weekly column featuring photos and fun facts from local photographer Pierre Ratté. Each week we’ll feature a new photo from Ratté along with a fact about the subject matter of the photo.
Grape Harvest in Gear, From Champagne to Cabernet
The traffic sign on Dry Creek Road reminds me farming takes place here every day. And, isn’t it glorious to live in an area that is grounded? Literally grounded, making a living from the earth.
If you’ve been on a local road behind a tractor...
This Week in H’burg… Words for the Wise
Ahhhhh. The sweet smell of petrichor last week was a welcome joy. Petrichor? Yes, petrichor: the pleasant, earthy odor that follows gentle rain after a dry spell. Cool word, isn’t it? Pictured above are a few drops highlighting the Crocosmia crocosmilflora, or Coppertips Montbretia....
Old school and new school
The other day, I learned heaps from Jamie Evans, a lively cannabis educator and an innovative cannabis cook, who will speak at the third annual Wine & Weed Symposium in August. (wine-weed.com/nc/) Evans isn’t just cooped up in a kitchen or at one of the many cannabis events she produces. She gets out and about and into fields.
Snapshot: Winter Thoughts Turn to Vermont
By Pierre Ratte
Dear readers, may your holidays be happy, healthy, and filled with light and love. Thank you for reading Snapshot of the Week and the Healdsburg Tribune! May 2024 bring a joyous New Year!
Vermont’s New Year’s gift is not merely snow. It’s not...
A Tale of Two Trees
Back in the ‘Burg. Here’s the Plaza’s beautifully decorated tree. And here’s another digital tree, beautiful in its simplicity at Healdsburg Community Church.
The Plaza’s tree is 43 feet tall and hails from Oregon. The sign next to the tree tells its story. Left in...
Autumn Leaves Changing Color East and West
Leaves turning color. Autumn is a splendid time of year. Harvests are in. Halloween is on the horizon. Thanksgiving draws near. Time to take stock.
Hmmmm? What does that mean, “take stock?” Websters says “to carefully think about something in order to make a decision...
Cannabis Country: Weed, wine, trees and the law
A bill recently drafted by State Senator Mike McGuire but not yet law has mustered only modest interest locally. That’s because there are currently 11 other marijuana bills before the California State legislature, some aimed at protecting cannabis patients and consumers.