If you love butterflies, you won’t want to miss the annual Butterfly Daze extravaganza, a two-day event at the Nature Center. Expanding Butterfly Daze to two days instead of one enables more families and friends to learn all about butterflies, and join the live monarchs as you step into the pavilion to feed the butterflies…

Steve Heller (right) joins Eduardo Santiago at the INK Book Gathering for the Idyllwild Author Series on Sunday afternoon. Heller talked about his writing and teaching life and discussed his book, “Lucky Kellerman,” which he wrote in 1987. He is currently writing a follow-up to that book, called “Return of the Ghost Killer.”