By Mary Forgione
California’s deserts can be magical during wildflower season. This probably isn’t one of those years, and it has nothing to do with our pandemic cancel culture. The traffic-stopping orange poppies from Lake Elsinore to the Antelope Valley likely will be no-shows because the fall-winter season has been drier than usual.
“Nothing is blooming at all,” Death Valley National Park spokeswoman Abby Wines said in an email. “Usually, bloom on the valley floor is mid-February through early April. Given that nothing is blooming yet, and that we didn’t have much precipitation in the fall and early winter, it will not be a spectacular bloom.”
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By Mary Forgione
When you email “The Goatfather” of goat surfing, he writes back: “Goat ahead and call me.” Pismo Beach surfer Dana McGregor has been teaching surfing and stand-up paddle boarding with and without goats for a decade. He started by taking his pet goat Goatee with him when he hit the waves. What’s it like to surf with a goat? “It’s quite a supernatural, like, out-of-this-world experience to be honest,” the 42-year-old said. This hilarious GoatFIT video shows him doing squats with goats, weight-lifting with goats, you get the idea (please, don’t try this at home).
Time in a pandemic moves like college: slow and stressful in the moment, but gone in a flash. If you looked up (like us) and Valentine’s Day was closing in fast, no worries. We rounded up COVID-safe date ideas in and around Los Angeles for you. That means at home, outdoors or for our long-distance lovers through a screen. And for those who don’t believe in the Hallmark industrial complex, all of these ideas also work for friends, roommates, pods or flying solo. Plus, we made you a whole set of printable anti-Valentines, if that’s more your speed.
18 ways to honor Black History Month around L.A. Jeanette Marantos © Provided by The LA Times A look at the many activities happening mostly virtually for Black History Month in and around Los Angeles. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images)
February is Black History Month, and if we learned anything in 2020, we ve got
lots of catching up to do. Good news: pandemic or no pandemic, there are still plenty of ways in Southern California to celebrate and learn, virtually.
If we ve missed an event, send an email to jeanette.marantos@latimes.com and we might be able to include it. And of course, since we still live in COVID-uncertain times, check the website to make sure the event hasn t changed.
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