“The pines were roaring on the height,
The winds were moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread,
The trees like torches blazed with light.”
By J.J.R. Tolkien, from “Over the Misty Mont Cold”
I doubt J. J. Tolkien was writing about Santa Ana winds or the resulting fires. Nevertheless, the words are fitting. This time of [...]
Getting Motivated
I know I’m preaching to the choir when I say that it is tough out here. Listen to the news and there are few words of hope, especially about the economy. People are afraid of losing their jobs and we’ve gotten into the habit of looking over our shoulder to see if the Big [...]
“O suns and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
October’s bright blue weather.”
- Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
So true are those words, especially if intended to describe a wedding day. Over 30 years ago, on a certain October day, the weather was close to perfection as vows were [...]
Time to Celebrate!
Well, the time has arrived! This Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. we celebrate our two year anniversary with the Early Rodders at Crescenta Valley Park. The Early Rodders are celebrating their 10 year anniversary with a big “ta-doo” at the park complete with live music, dancing, food trucks and of course [...]
Let the Celebrations Begin
As most of you know, CV Weekly is beginning its third year of publication with this issue, Vol. 3, No. 1. Without question, I wanted to celebrate this milestone, but the question was, how?
Last year we hosted a lavish party on the grounds of St. Luke’s of the Mountains Episcopal Church – [...]
“The moon is at her full, and riding high,
Floods the calm fields with light.
The airs that hover in the summer sky,
Are all asleep to-night.”
– William C. Bryant 1794-1879
Poet, editor of The New York Evening Post
My apologies for the forecast last week. With only two weeks of summer left, nature took over and slipped in one [...]
The Not So Terrible Two
Looking at the front cover this week, below our masthead you will see Vol. 2, No. 52 ¬ the last issue of Vol. 2, marking the completion of two years of publication of the Crescenta Valley Weekly. What a year it has been!
Like the second year in a toddler’s life, our [...]
“September days have the warmth of summer in their brief hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”
Rowland E. Robinson 1833-1900
~ American writer and naturalist
These words speak well of this time of year, although hot would more accurately describe these last days of summer. Last weekend brought triple digits and the highest [...]
A Cost Too Great
The most devastating fire in the history of Los Angeles County started this week two years ago.
The Station Fire began as a small – and many think containable – fire in the Angeles National Forest on Aug. 26, 2009. The catastrophe actually started further east in Azusa. The Morris Fire was already [...]
PART II
“I spent years traveling around the world searching for the best place to live. I looked for beauty and climate advantages in every country on the globe. And when I returned I found it right here where I had started from – in the Crescenta-Cañada Valley.”
~ Seymour Thomas, local artist, 1890s
The cooler temperatures of [...]
