When the air turns cool and with Autumn just around the corner and the foliage begins to turn to bright orange, red and yellow, we have a place in San Diego where we can celebrate the fall harvest of Apples. There's nothing that says Autumn like the beautiful and crisp fall foliage and the local sweet and succulent apples. Bring the family and come on over to another one of the treasures of San Diego County to the scenic mining town of Julian and experience their annual apple harvest festival. This wonderful and quaint town specializes in homemade apple pies, cider, art shows and entertainment through out the whole community. Speaking of pies, my favorite is the apple and boysenberry pie that is so amazing in taste that I usually can't wait to get it home and I have to order at least one slice while there.
There is also a local winery doing wine tastings that would please any palate. There are numerous roadside stands that offer varieties of fresh local apples, pears and the homemade cider that is nothing short of the 'nectar of the gods'. That term was reserved for fine wines but when you taste the cider, I think you will agree that it is like nothing you have experienced from commercial offerings.
One of the really enjoyable features of visiting Julian is to be able stay in one of the numerous bed and breakfast inns and enjoy the various activities in the surrounding park lands and especially the food. You will never guess what is featured on the desert menus. Did I stump you? Apple Pies served hot, cold, ala mode or anyway you would like them. Julian offers hiking, biking, canoeing, horseback riding and plenty more things to do including shopping. With the holidays coming soon, it could be your chance to pick those unique and one of kind items only found in Julian and give someone on your shopping list a real treat. Just a block this side of the downtown area is an amazing town cemetery that has a view out over the valley.
Each year, we have a special weekend planned in October called Julian Apple Days Festival, October 4th and 5th. This special weekend is full of fun for the whole family with apples on displays, apple treats and people coming from all over just to experience the apples and the fall festival. Last year, I noticed that many of the displays offered everyone a chance to experience the apples for free. There are many townsfolk dressed in period costumes and add so much local flavor to the festivities and there is even a horse and carriage ride that will delight the whole family.
San Diego , Community of Mission Hills September 1, 2008
High above the San Diego Harbor is one of San Diego's Premier Urban Neighborhoods, Mission Hills
With many Historic homes, Mission Hills was home to the daughter of Henry Johnston, a sailor that
guided his ship into the San Diego Harbor using a point of land, now called Inspiration Point.
There are several parks and one of San Diego's first Missions ( Mission Presideo) located in what is now called Presideo Park. The land parcels and homes by Presideo Park are some of San Diego's most outstanding and elaborate mansions.
Editorial note: This post was hand written on special digitized paper using my Logitech io Digital Pen and the handwriting was transcribed and then the text pasted here as a post. The title was the Key Words that I also saved. Each page allows for the title tags to be the title of the page.
My title tags in little boxes at the bottom of the page, read, San Diego Elite Community of Mission Hills. So that is what I named the post. Pretty neat. This digital pen could and may actually speed up my postings. This is a model of digital pen that I have owned since 2005. I didn't re-install the software in 2007 when I purchased my new Tablet PC because I was not using the pen that much. Now as a blogger, this will afford writing posts on the fly and posting after synchronization of the Logitech io pen.
These are the current market statistics for all of San Diego County from Jun 30, 2008 through August 27th,2008.
This report includes all residential property, Active, Pending, Sold, Expired and Off Market in all price ranges in all zip codes of San Diego County.
In each category is shown the total number of units, the average price and the total dollar volume.
Category # Of Properties Average Price Total Dollar Volume
Active on the Market 18,198 $739,774 $13,462,407.252
Pending Close of Escrow 6,180 $414,659 $2,562,596,620
Sold Listings 7,219 $462,355 $3,337,740,745
Expired Listings 2,619 $684,376 $1,774,482,468
Off the Market (Canc) 2,881 $581,813 $1,676,203,252
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In the city of San Marcos, a favorite son of the area, Jim Eubank has a vision for a large vacant lot adjacent right off what was then a 2 lane road, San Marcos Blvd, now a major thoroughfare. A real restaurant row. That was in the 60's. By the late 1970's Jim vision would come to life. Now managed by his children, Restaurant Row still has some of the original restaurants dating back to when it was first opened, like the Fish House Vera Cruz, Bruno's and Katsu's and they are still thriving today.
Dining at Restaurant Row covers the gambit from American favorites to the new trendy 'fusion' cuisine.
International in its scope, California Restaurant Row is sure to have your favorites. So be it, Mexican, Italian, Indian, Chinese or even the all- american hamburger, it's all there.
With charm un-rivaled, Restaurant Row will also delight your senses with it's visual festive and colorful walkways and fountain adorned courtyards.
Here are some favorites to try.
Acapulco Mexican Restaurant and Cantina Bruno's Italian Restaurant
China's Maui Bistro 55 Yardline Grill and Sports Bar
China Wokery Fish House Vera Cruz
Cocina del Charro Friar's Folly Bistro and Wine Cellar
India Princess Katsu Sushi and Teppan Grill
King and I Tai Marietas Fine Mexican Food
Market Street Café and French Bakery Old California Coffee House
Old California Mining Company San Marcos Brewery and Grill
Having endured major wildfires the past four years that affected a huge amount of acreage and at least 140 homes and other structures, the City of Poway in San Diego County, has adopted some strict new guidelines in hopes of minimizing any future wildfire damage in the community of Poway.
Many of Poway's homes are adjacent to open spaces and the City of Poway is imposing, effective September 19, 2008 new clearance guidelines to help mitigate any future fire loss.
The soon-to-be enforced guidelines include clearing 100 feet of space around the residence or other structures of flammable chaparral fuels. The creation of the 'defense of space' program throughout the community of Poway is an important part of the fire loss reduction strategy as reported by the Poway Fire Department.
The only contentious part of the new ordinance has to do with land owners of vacant land when adjacent to other parcels with residences on it. The ordinance states that if 100 feet of defensible space is determined and only for example 70 feet is located on the property where there is a residence, then the defensible space improvements of 70 feet would be performed by that homeowner and the other 30 feet by the adjacent vacant land owner.
The ordinance was specific as to what constitutes flammable chaparral fuel. It includes chaparral species, annual weeds, dead or dying trees, etc. It does exclude ornamental landscaping, and Palm's and Eucalyptus trees, steam beds and banks of streams and venal pools.
City of Poway officials have approved the hiring of two compliance officers to help implement the program to assist in identifying where the risks are. The identified properties for risks will then be prioritized by the Fire Martial with notices sent out to the property owners for inclusion in the program. Certificates of compliance will be issued.
A smart trip to REALTORS listing and selling Poway real estate that might be involved in this program would be to prepare a disclosure about the new ordinance, it's compliance standards and the required maintenance of the 'defensible space' requirements.
This effort by Poway to take this initiative should be applauded by all in the community and it certainly sets up a wonderful standard example that could be adopted county wide to minimize the hazards of these wildfires on structures in the back county and even on human life.
Editorial note: I can't help but to visualize that these maintained clearings may also provide some refuge to the wildlife which commonly live in the chaparral areas. This little side benefit although not part of the plan, certainly gives me pause that the community of Poway looks well after its own- including the wildlife.
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