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Photos by Doris Jean Lombard

A rare bird, the Wilson’s Warbler, is a yellow flash against the green cedars. Its small size is evident when compared to the Manzanita berry in the water.

Early signs of fall were present as the leaves were already turning in August.

Above and below: Flashes of yellow and orange contrast against green foliage where several Western Tanagers visit Mountain Center for water.

One month after the devastating Mountain Fire, California Coffeeberry burnt stumps are already sprouting new growth.

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Idyllwild Arts Summer Program begins June 14
By April 1, 2015December 4, 2015 Reading Time: 3 minutes

The Idyllwild Arts Summer Program returns from June into August with its traditional array of the familiar, the new, the challenging and this year, some retrospection. The Summer Program has classes, activities and workshops for the whole family — kids to adults. And the week of June 20 to 26 focuses on the whole family….

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Quinn Cummings leads second Idyllwild author series
By May 9, 2012February 4, 2013 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Quinn Cummings, author of “Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from my Awkward and Lovely Life” (Harper Collins Hyperion Books, 2009), leads off the second Idyllwild Authors Series. Once again, presenter Eduardo Sanitago has booked 10 A-list Los Angeles authors for his weekly series that begins with Cummings at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 20 at the…

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25th Jazz festival honors Marshall Hawkins
By July 24, 2018 Reading Time: 4 minutes

The 25th-annual Jazz in the Pines festival is only weeks away — the weekend of Aug. 10 to 12. For several years, Marshall Hawkins, the creator of the festival, had an idea to spotlight jazz, America’s music, and feature Idyllwild Arts Academy students at the same time. He wanted more than an evening recital or…

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Idyllwild School volunteers honored
By May 23, 2012February 8, 2013 Reading Time: 1 minute

On Friday, May 11, Idyllwild School hosted a tea at Gary Parton’s lilac garden to honor all the volunteers who have helped the students, staff and faculty this year.

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Idyllwild Actors Theatre presents ‘The Gin Game’
By August 23, 2017August 23, 2017 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Conversations over gin rummy in Pulitzer Prize-winning play Who wants to wind up in a nursing home and how does one adapt to the stasis and inactivity? In the 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Gin Game,” two elderly residents, bored with the residence routine, strike up a friendship. He offers to teach her gin rummy….

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Rescued mountain lion seeking name
By February 16, 2021March 30, 2021 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Back in late September 2020, a mountain lion cub was found motionless on the side of the road in the Idyllwild area near the Riverside County Fire Department.   “The California Department of Fish and Wildlife suggested they contact the San Diego Humane Society (SDHS) because they have a wildlife center in Romona with vet…

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