An era has ended: The Cima, California Post Office — Zip Code 92323 — has closed down permanently.
The Cima PO was established in 1904, mainly to serve the railroad workers and ranchers in the area. It was about the funkiest public service
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On my way to a hike today (and more on that to come) I stopped at the Cima, CA post office. (My mail arrives there at PO Box 43, 92323: send a letter!)
There was a roadrunner in the parking lot when I got there.
I left and went on my hike (and
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At the wheel on Saturday afternoon, The Raven flinched. “What the…?” A low black sports car came out of nowhere behind us on Kelbaker Road, passed us doing at least 40 miles per hour more than our sedate 60 or so, and straddled the center line as
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Thunderstorms rolled in this morning, one or more from each of the four directions, and the smell of wet creosote was thick on the wind.
I decided to go get my mail. This involves about a forty=mile round trip. My mail tends to pile up in the box
… (continues)I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.
I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.
This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.
My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.
* May not actually equal 1000

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