camissonia (Arleen)
My blogs
- Camissonia's Corner
- The Grub Files: Cooking with Camissonia
- Western Sojourns: Travels with Camissonia
- Camissonia's Critter Life List
- La Cresta Critters
- Camissonia's CA Native Plant Life List
Blogs I follow
- RAMBLINGS FROM A DESERT GARDEN....
- Flower Hill Farm
- For Love of the Table
- [ Lost in the Landscape ]
- A Rose is a Rose...
- blythebirdsandsilliness
- Breathing Treatment
- Brian and Ashley's Hiking Blog
- Britta's Gardening in High Heels
- Bush Bernie's Blog
- California Native Garden Design
- California Native Plant PR
- California Native Plant Society
- Cannundrums
- Cooking Pleasure
- Crystal Coast Gardener
- Curbstone Valley
- Deborah Small's Ethnobotany Blog
- Elephant's Eye
- Food Locker
- Food My Sister Can Make
- Garden Natives - Plant Descriptions
- Gary Valle's Photography on the Run
- Grouchy Shopper
- How's Robb?
- Ink & Penstemon
- Laguna Dirt
- LAST FRONTIER GARDEN
- leavesnbloom
- Living in the 'burbs
- Living Vicuriously, aka Pasadena Daily Photo, has moved.
- Lois Miller's Greenspeak
- Mammoth Lakes Daily Photo
- mmm-yoso!!!
- Modern Day Ozzie and Harriet
- My Inner Fatty
- Native Plants of the Great Basin and Nearby
- Nature ID
- nature of a man
- Nice Homes Nice Parks
- Red Cook
- The Galloping Gardener
- THE IDIOT GARDENER
- The Xeric Gardener
- Through My Eyes
- Timeless Environments
- Town Mouse and Country Mouse
- Wild Suburbia
- WTF Japan Seriously
- ~~~ Sharon Lovejoy
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Murrieta, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, I came to Southern California back in 1983 to attend college. Eventually got my degree in English and then ended up working as an ops manager at a brokerage firm (go figure). In 2002, my career took another weird segue and I became an administrator for an architect/developer. Been there ever since. In 2006, Gil, our pooch & I moved from a small townhouse in LA County to a rural 5-acre property in Murrieta, California. We both still work full-time, but love coming home every day from the discombobulating pace of LA to some fresh country air. Anyhoo, makes that daily 3+ hour round-trip commute worth the while. Outside of family, friends and work, I am preoccupied with cooking, gardening (especially with California natives), birding and botanizing. |
| Interests | Birding, field botany, native plant gardening, photography, cooking |
| Favorite Movies | Pretty much every film version of Pride & Prejudice. I'm particularly fond of the 1940 adaption with Greer Garson & Laurence Olivier (which the Jane Austen purists generally hate). |
| Favorite Music | Sarah Vaughan, Vanessa Rubin, Billie Holiday, Shakatak, Level 42, The Wolfgang Press, ABBA, Norman Brown, Incognito, Sergio Mendes, Fattburger, Antonio Carlos Jobim, anything Giacomo Puccini (cause I'm a sap) |
| Favorite Books | Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Sherman Alexie), My Cousin My Gastroenterologist (Mark Leyner), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), Picture Bride (Cathy Song), Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston), The Kitchen God's Wife (Amy Tan), The Lisbon Traviata (Terence McNally), The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, California Native Plants for the Garden (Bornstein, Fross, O'Brien) |
To water or not to water, that is the question...