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Archive for January, 2007

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Things to do this weekend in Palo Alto


Take a look at the local newspaper, Palo Alto Weekly, with special attention to their Things To Do section. The newspaper comes out twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays. It's distributed for free and available at all the local libraries, and many coffee shops. The main library is near the corner of Newell and Embarcadero Road:

1213 Newell Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
650-329-2436
You can also check the Palo Alto Weekly online:

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/things_do/index.php

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Walking the Dish in the Palo Alto Foothills


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It was a busy day, but I managed to fit it in short walk on "The Dish" near Stanford campus. The land actually belongs to Stanford, but it's open to the public and gets its name from the satellite receiving dish on top of the hill. Sometimes, it's also called "Cow Hill", because of the herd ...

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Another beautiful, sunny day in Palo Alto


We have so many gorgeous days like this that you might think I'd stop appreciating them. I haven't. But I'm definitely spoiled. Yesterday it was rainy. Not torrential rain. Just drizzle. It made me grouchy. But now I'm looking out the window at the surrounding green hillsides and thankful for the occasional winter rains that allowed them to turn green. It's hard to believe that today is still the middle of winter as I ...