These days, my favorite hike is a half mile from my house. I head down my street, around a couple of corners, across one busy intersection, past a church, then up a steep hill toward the Folsom Point entrance to Folsom Lake. Off to my left, the grasses still wave green under the springtime sun, and lupine blooms in purple tangles on the hillsides, and some lakeside trails have been cut by wanderers. Writer Tony Bizjak, whose name you’ll recognize from The Sacramento Bee, got me thinking about tarantulas. Since he retired from The Bee last summer, he’s been exploring hiking trails all around
Sacramento and beyond. Also this month, writer Marcus Crowder checks in with Buck Busfield as he retires from the B
Street Theatre. I remember when the theater opened in 1991, when Buck and brother Tim—then a star in the popular television series “thirtysomething”—brought the B Street to town as an extension of their touring children’s theater company. Enjoy the rest of spring, and thank you for reading.
