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When people finish reading Marilyn Woods’ memoir, “The Orange Woods,” a couple of things generally happen. They want to visit Orange Woods, the picturesque Pauma Valley farm where Woods and her late husband, Jack, planted a lavender field, made wine and grew a lot of oranges. They want to listen to Vince Gill, the country singer/songwriter whose music was the soundtrack of Marilyn and Jack’s loving life. They want to tell their significant others how they feel about them. Right now.
But mostly, they want a Kleenex. Because when people finish reading “The Orange Woods,” which tells the story of how Marilyn continued living and loving after Jack’s sudden death in 2015, they will have had several good cries over this beautiful, awful, awe-inspiring thing we call life.
The Balboa Park Star can carry up to 288 passenger-diners.
A petition opposing a temporary ferris wheel in Balboa Park s Plaza de Panama has more than 2,600 signatures and counting. The city still has to approve the installation, which the Balboa Park committee voted 7-1 to move forward earlier this month.
The Balboa Park Star was proposed in October by the Cohn Restaurant Group, owner of the Prado Restaurant and Tea Pavilion, and Sky Views of America as a 3-6 month cure for the pandemic blahs.
It would occupy 56 x 75 feet of the area between the San Diego Museum of Art and the Timken Museum, offering rides, views, and three-course dining in the sky.