Hallberg Butterfly Gardens 
Annual Open Gardens Celebration – 8687 Oak Grove Road Sebastopol, California 95472
It’s our 17th anniversary!
Come celebrate with us…
Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 10 am to 4 pm
Free! No Reservations Needed!
~Children’s activities ~Wildflower display ~Walking tours ~Bird and butterfly sightings ~Plants, books, and crafts for sale
Each summer, Hallberg Butterfly Gardens invites friends and neighbors from all over to come to Graton and enjoy a day with us. Look for announcements in local nurseries, local papers, or the current Farm Trails guide…or become a Friend of the Garden and we will notify you in our annual newsletter.
for more information, click Hallberg
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Well, I couldn’t pass this title up – read on – text from their website:
Walking Distance – Extraordinary Hikes for Ordinary People
Walking is simple, but it can also be profound. It’s a celebration of our evolutionary heritage, it stimulates our thinking, it contributes to conservation and sustainability, it deepens our understanding and appreciation of the world, it can be a means to explore spirituality, it slows our often frantic lives, and it makes us healthier and happier in the process.
Robert and Martha Manning’s beautiful and inspiring book, Walking Distance: Extraordinary Hikes for Ordinary People, emphasizes the accessibility of walking the world’s great natural and cultural landscapes. As the subtitle suggests, these are extraordinary hikes for ordinary people. Walk across England, around Mt. Blanc, along the great coastlines of North America and Australia, follow the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, walk with pilgrims to Santiago de Compostella, walk among the world’s great mountain ranges – the Sierras, the Rockies, the Appalachians, the Andes, and the Alps, walk through the Grand Canyon. And much more.
Walking Distance introduces the idea of long-distance walking, addressing why, how, and where to walk, and provides first-hand descriptions of thirty of the world’s great long-distance trails, ranging from inn-to-inn walks to backpacking treks. Trail descriptions include natural and cultural history, personal anecdotes, and practical tips, and are richly illustrated with color photographs and maps.
…walking is a joyful celebration of like and the diverse, beautiful, and curious world in which we live.
–from the Introduction
For more information – go to Extraordinary Hikes.
