ARTIFACTS: A Greenfield lowrider, American Tin Cannery zen, Ed Leeper lives.

• If you missed the Greenfield Harvest Festival last Saturday, organized by First Night Monterey executive director Ellen Martin and a team of volunteers, here is some of what you missed. The maniacal energy, crazily colored costumes and bilingual pop routines of Twinkle Time and Friends. Tricked-out lowriders by car clubs like Sinceros (“the sincere men”) and one shiny sedan that had a plasma screen and Playstation 3 set-up in the fur-lined trunk. Sopas, agua frescas and pambazos (Mexican sandwiches dipped in salsa and griddled). It was a bright, windy day on the main drag in the tiny town, which maybe doesn’t get a lot of action, but for a few hours it felt like the festive center of the universe. And it had electricity the whole day.

• Pratap Lama, a Buddhist monk from Himalayan Nepal, has a grand opening for the Karuna Yog art center in Pacific Grove’s American Tin Cannery 2-5:30pm Sunday. There will be thangka art, yes, but also jewelry and other lovely pieces. Lama learned thangka art from his father, who learned it from his father, and so on. And now he shares it with us. While there, check out an artist collective that’s assembled in one of the spaces on the ground floor near the quizzically long escalator. 383-6646.

• Three local authors of local wilderness gather at Old Capitol Books 3-5pm Sunday to share their well earned insight with you. They are Patrice Vecchione, poet and author of Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life; Paola Berthoin, publisher of Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed (and part of that Arts story over to your left); and Nikki Nedeff, one of the authors of Coastal California’s Living Legacy: The Monterey Pine Forest. 333-0383.

• Now that the National Steinbeck Center is a tenant to owner CSUMB in its formerly beleaguered building on Main Street, the staff can focus on events that the people want to be at. Like the Dia de los Muertos’ El Despojo/Undermining Earth art show, sponsored by Hijos del Sol, opening this Saturday. And next Thursday, Oct. 29, the 5:30pm book launch, reception and signing of A Fighting Chance by Herald reporter Claudia Melendez.

• If you haven’t already, go see Ed Leeper’s posthumous exhibition at the Pacific Grove Art Center before it goes away on Oct. 29 (@MontereyMCA tweeted some choice photos). And bring a favorite book you’d like to share. Go and you’ll understand why. 375-2208.