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Week of June 12th – June 18th, 2025
Image by Jim Brock – Lake Fulmor Weather: Highs of 71 – 83 Lows of 51 – 57 Rattle Snake Rattle Snakes are probably the animal you need to fear the most in Idyllwild. Yes, it’s rattle snake season so you need to be on the look-out. In spring and summer when it starts to…
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Week of June 5th – June 11th, 2025
Photo by Mark Dean Weather: Highs of 71 – 83 Lows of 51 – 57 Prominent Wildflowers right now… Scarlet Bugler (Penstemon) Another wildflower that is blooming everywhere right now is the Scarlet Bugler. Some people label them “Penstemon” which they are, but there are 240 species of penstemon in North America. The ones we…
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Week of May 29th – June 4th, 2025
Newly banded Eaglets at Lake HemetPhoto by Friends of the Desert Mountains Weather: Highs of 63 – 80 Lows of 41 – 59 Bald Eagles The Bald Eagle has been our National Bird since 1782. In 1967 they were endangered due to the use of pesticides and only about 30 nesting pairs remained. Since 2007,…
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Week of May 22nd- May 28th, 2025
Photo by Al Matta Weather: Highs of 64 – 73 Lows of 41 – 47 Memorial Day: Memorial Day was originally named “Decoration Day”. It started informally, in the South after the Civil War, by women who committed to “decorating” soldier’s graves of both the North & the South. This caught on and by 1868,…
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Week of May 15th- May 21st, 2025
Snow Plants: Popping up all over Idyllwild – See if you can find one… Photo by Robert Moore Weather: Highs of 62 – 78 Lows of 36 – 54 First Idyllwild Fire Station In the early 1900’s, there were many devastating building fires in the newly forming Idyllwild. In 1904 the Idyllwild Sanatorium burned to…
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Week of May 8th- May 14th, 2025
Photo Alpenglow Lilac Gardens Weather: Highs of 52 – 82 Lows of 36 – 55 Mothers Day & Lilacs: Mother’s Day and Lilacs just seem to go hand in hand…especially if you live in Idyllwild. Did you know that Mother’s Day was originally started by a woman in West Virginia as a way to not…
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Week of May 1st- May 7th, 2025
Photo by Cathie Davis Weather: Highs of 44 – 68 Lows of 34 – 46 Cinco de Mayo: Did you know that Cinco de Mayo is primarily an American Celebration, not a Mexican celebration? Like St. Patrick’s Day, it’s the Americans that find a niche involving the immigrants to this country and capitalize on it.…
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Week of April 24th – April 30th, 2025
Photo by Jodi Collins Weather: Highs of 44 – 70 Lows of 31 – 45 Earth:(Earth Day was Tuesday) In honor of Earth day this week, let’s talk about “Earth”. This famous image taken from Apollo 17 in 1972 is called “The Blue Marble” Our planet is the only planet in our solar system that…
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Week of April 17th – April 23rd, 2025
Western Bluebird – Photo by Jim Brock Weather: Highs of 46 – 67 Lows of 34 – 42 Easter: Easter, whose name comes from the Germanic goddess of spring named “Eostre” is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the first century 33 AD. It is also referred to as Pascha which…