It’s October and while out talking to businesses along Florence the other day I came across an enduring seasonal favorite. The Halloween Pumpkin Patch. I found the Downey Pumpkin Patch. It’s thought that carving vegetable lanterns as part of the Halloween ritual started as a Celtic tradition in Ireland and Scotland. The vegetable of choice…

It was a very warm afternoon in early fall 2022 and I was headed to the Downey Library to see the Big Wheel of Russell’s Bike Shop fame. There were a lot of people at the library, way too many for me to be comfortable inside the building. Fortunately the Big Wheel was being displayed…