festival

This is what we wait all year for. Golden, sweet peach pies, ice creams, cheese cakes, jams, cookies, dumplings, ice tea, milkshakes, even burgers,  chocolate covered peaches and of course all varieties of these ambrosial fruits dribbling down our chins. Welcome to the Marysville Peach Festival July 15 & 16 in its historic downtown. Stick around […]

Weather permitting you can head heavenward at the Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic on June 18 and 19 at Keiser Park in Windsor. Expect at least 30 wildly colorful, even comic, balloons to be soaring above the vineyards. Gates open VERY early at 4am and launching usually happens around 6. After the first lift […]

I’m hoping to locate my favorite oyster pizza this Saturday May 7 during the annual Oyster Festival at Sharon Meadows in Golden Gate Park from 12 to 6. 11 vendors will be tempting you with fresh, local bivalves and endless supplies of cocktail sauce and mignonette. If you’re insatiable about oysters there’s a huck and […]

Bay seniors who want to catch Petaluma before it becomes yet another wine burg can celebrate the days when it was the once-proud “Egg Capital of the World” on Saturday April 23 at the annual Butter & Egg Days Festival and Parade. Visit the charming Historic Downtown where there will be 4 blocks of food […]

Bay seniors who consider drones devices mainly useful for the Defense Department in targeting terrorists have been watching too much “Madame Secretary”. For a wider view on February 28 at 7pm attend the 2016 Bay Area Drone Film Festival at the AMC Mercado-20 in Santa Clara. The 80-foot screen will be showing 27 short films […]

Bay seniors challenged to amaze their blasé teenage grandkids might want to think about taking them to the 9th Annual World Sword Swallower’s Day on Saturday, February 27 at 1:45 pm at Ripley’s Believe It or Not Odditorium at Fisherman’s Wharf. The main event, the Big Swallow, occurs at 2:27. Free but any contributions (I’m […]