For more than sixty years, Mother Nature has transformed the rolling hills of North San Diego County into one of the most spectacular and coordinated displays of natural color and beauty anywhere in the world. The nearly fifty acres of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers that make up the Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch in Carlsbad, California, are in bloom for approximately eight to ten weeks each year - from early March through early May - literally bringing the famous fields back to life. This annual burst of color, which has become part of the area’s local heritage, also is one of nature’s official ways of announcing the arrival of spring here in Southern California.

For one of our most popular San Diego boat tour packages, save $30 and experience the best of both worlds with our San Diego sightseeing Scooter & Speedboat Adventure combo! You jump on a scooter and explore San Diego at your own pace in the world’s first storytelling scooter. What makes this San Diego sightseeing tour unique is that you get to go where tour buses can’t and experience some of the best parts of San Diego that most visitors never get to see. As you drive along on your San Diego sightseeing adventure, your scooter will navigate, crack jokes and tell you the stories that bring San Diego to life.

One candy heiress, two bullets, and three suspects.

Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian Ruth Quinn was murdered, execution-style, in her cottage. Her death sent a shock wave through the community. The granddaughter of Jujubes and Jujyfruits creator Henry Heide, Ruth was found fully clothed with her shoes on, in her bed, dead from two gunshot wounds. To this day, her murder has never been solved but whispers about her brother, her son, and even a local petty thief still swirl.

This is the fourth concert of the 2025 Center for World Music concert series Echoes of Time.

Mingei International Museum

Friday, April 18, 2025 | 7:30 PM

Experience an unforgettable evening with Qais Essar, a pioneering Afghan composer and rabab virtuoso who weaves the traditional sounds of the mountainous Hindu Kush region with contemporary global music. The rabab, an instrument first mentioned in Arabic texts of the tenth century, is a plucked lute considered by many to be Afghanistan’s national instrument and a precursor of the sarod, prominent in North Indian classical music . Qais’s music blends Afghan folk, Americana, and other sources, creating a unique soundscape that feels both timeless and boundary-pushing.