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Orange County, CA, is an amazing place—and for reasons other than its turn-of-the-21st century infamy as the location of movies and TV shows such as "The O.C’s Desperately Real Housewives."
Although 3 million people live here, and countless tourists visit each year, to many folks a significant part of the county remains invisible—the thousands of acres of wild lands that are part of the California Floristic Province
Just minutes from busy freeways, Orange County’s oak and riparian woodlands, coastal sage scrub and chaparral plant communities are home to a variety of wild things that creep and flower and fly.
How can we honor and help preserve these places of solitude and serenity, scented by sage and haunted by the calls of soaring hawks?
This website and associated publications hope to respond to that challenge by promoting a nature writing anthology opportunity for artists to record their love affairs with the wilderness right in our back yards—Orange County, CA.
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Looking west at sunrise toward Red Rocks from Baker Canyon. Feb. 2008.
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