A Celebration of Southern California's Seasons: A Book of Observations

This offering of verse and artwork is meant to lighten the heart and inspire the soul to take its body and go outside to play in a gentle and joyful manner. I hope it suggests a corrective for what passes for civilization in this day and age. It’s meant to show people that, if they’ll just take the time to look around, smell, touch, and listen, they can garner a spiritual boost from their own neighborhoods as well as public, but maybe not entirely famous, places that are nearby and are not expensive to visit.

Mary G. Craig was a resident of Southern California for over fifty years. During that time, she came to love its natural community and its seasons, which support and ornament its extensive urban setting. She is an amateur birder, an earth worshiper, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother who is concerned about the future of that area and indeed the entire planet and the quality of life that we are bequeathing to future generations. She is now retired and lives with her husband in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she is learning about the natural community there.