Published August 11, 2005

Saturday: Best place to get your
fingernails dirty: Sonoma Garden Park Volunteer Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-12 noon, sponsored by Sonoma Ecology Center. Bring your own water and gloves. Purchase veggies to take home. 19990 Seventh Street East, Sonoma. (707) 695-2164.

Funniest local gallery: Hipkiss Family Gallery. Five Hipkisses offer their whimsical ceramics, many food oriented. Always one Hipkiss with clay-covered fingers in gallery. 414 First Street East behind Vasquez House. (707) 938-KISS.

Saturday: Summer Film Fest at Gundlach Bundschu Winery, featuring “Harold and Maude,” wine and cheese tasting with Hog Island Oysters. $25. (707) 938-5266 or www.gunbun.com.

Hidden treasure historic house: Vasquez House in El Paseo Courtyard off First Street East or East Spain Street. Home of General Hooker, built in 1851, open for tea and browsing 1:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday. Headquarters Sonoma League for Historic Preservation. (707) 938-0510.

Best Free Concert this weekend: Sonoma Valley Museum of Art’s Second Sunday Salon, Sunday. Ninety minutes of chamber, light classical and tango music performed by Sonoma musicians Leta Davis and David Ross.