Sara Kelly and Gary O’Neill retired to Los Osos in 2014 from Hanford where she was a middle school teacher and he was an agricultural ranch manager. The next year she trained to become a docent rover at Montaña de Oro and he trained to be a tour guide at Piedras Blancas Light Station. Gary has also pursued a lifelong passion for photography focusing on the waves, wildlife, and wildflowers of the Central Coast.
So much more than a delicate wildflower, this plant deserves its four names: ‘wavy leaf soap plant,” “soap root,” “amole,” and Chlorogalum pomeridianum or “afternoon blooming green milk.” And it’s... read more →