- Jen Savage - We know Humboldt County offers seemingly endless opportunities to explore wild places, but our neighbor to the north sometimes gets overlooked. Del Norte County is well worth a day trip, or even a weekend – or, if you’re lucky enough to have the time, several days of visiting the redwoods, beaches, dunes and other special places including the Pyramid Point State … [Read more...] about Emerald Experience: Pyramid Point
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Emerald Style: Power of the Dress
Rima Greer With Cinderella back in the zeitgeist, it’s worth examining just what kind of impact this simple fairy tale has had on every woman’s psyche - and her wardrobe - since Charles Perrault published it in 1697. Cinderella may be about a girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and rises up to be queen, but the first thing any girl will tell you about Cinderella is her … [Read more...] about Emerald Style: Power of the Dress
Emerald Experience: Big River Estuary
Big River Estuary: Expansive Conservation, Enormous Fun By Jennifer Savage, Adventure Columnist Photo Courtesy by Catch a Canoe Of all Mendocino’s many adventures, exploring the Big River Estuary State Marine Conservation Area ranks among the most amazing. It’s the longest undeveloped estuary in Northern California, bordered by Big River State Park, making for 7,000 … [Read more...] about Emerald Experience: Big River Estuary
Emerald Style: Layers
Emerald Style Rima Greer, Fashion Columnist Usually when Humboldtians talk about wearing layers, they mean a long sleeve tee, a vest and a hoodie. Because it’s either beautiful or pouring rain or windy or foggy or sunny, or all of them practically at once. But today I’m writing about a different kind of layer. The kind that makes any top or dress just a … [Read more...] about Emerald Style: Layers
Emerald Travels: China
Sean Jansen, Travel Columnist China isn’t a country that celebrates many things you would consider relevant to most of us in the Western world. Their style and culture are so bizarrely different from our own that many of us would look at them as being something from another planet. And if their culture is from another planet, then there food is from another … [Read more...] about Emerald Travels: China
