State Route 99 cuts straight through the Central Valley to Sacramento via Bakersfield and Fresno (see map below). And if you get too lost in your audiobook after the 5 skirts Angeles National Forest and meanders into the middle of nowhere, you might accidentally end up on it as we did yesterday. We didn't realize our mistake until we took note of the multicolored flowering bushes lining the median of the freeway, obscuring a great......

- Mayor Tony says the fire is under control, it burned 800 acres - NYT - Alhambra, Burbank, Irvine, and Santa Clarita, you've been bad. How else can you explain the misery that's poised to befall you when the unholy alliance of AOL and Linkin Park plan to bombard your movie houses for One Night Only - The Rock Radio - Ted the Titan the huge "Corpse Flower" opened and closed over these last......

Our first bit of apple talk was on a more national scope, it seems, and we're ready to bring things closer to home for all you fruit lovers out there. Sure, we have a scant working knowledge of California produce; garlic up in Gilroy, strawberries in Oxnard, and the vineyards full of wine-ready grapes, the avocadoes, figs, artichokes, and varities of citrus fruit up and down this glorious state. Ah, the bounty! But apples......