Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Alleys, Driveways, Parking Lots, and Dirt Roads. Above and below, the view from the top of the Kaiser Roseville Medical Center parking structure. Looking east down Folsom Boulevard from another parking structure, this one near Historic Sutter Street and the Light Rail tracks in Folsom. Finally — I spotted this truck in the parking lot […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 25, 2016. Share a photograph inspired by a favorite poem, verse, story, or song lyric. Bonus points if you share why the particular text resonates with you. (Though you certainly don’t have to!) If you’re not feeling especially literary or musical this week, see if you can capture the […]
She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: `Where’s the other ladder?–Why, I hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other–Bill! fetch it here, lad!–Here, put ’em up at this corner–No, tie ’em together […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Outdoor Seating. I thought it would be fun to share some of my most memorable benches and chairs — including a trip to The Brick, which featured in the TV show Northern Exposure, and a flashback to 1974, when I visited Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm for the first time. Enjoy! […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 18, 2016: There’s rhythm and motion all around us — this week, let’s capture some of it in a photo. Following on from my post on Native Californians yesterday… These photos were taken by my dad back in 1972, in Northern California.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week was Indoor Seating. Angel Bob (David Atkins): The Angels are feasting sir. Soon we’ll be able to absorb enough power to consume this vessel, this world and all the stars and worlds beyond. The Doctor: Well, we’ve got comfy chairs, did I mention? Angel Bob: We have no need of comfy chairs. The Doctorto Amy: I made him say “comfy chairs”. Well, the first thing that popped into my mind was the above scene from “Flesh and Stone” (Doctor Who, Series 5). And then I thought about these fairly comfy — and fancy — looking chairs which I saw in the Folsom History Museum on Sutter Street, as part of their Folsom’s Historic Places exhibit.
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 11, 2016: One love refers to the universal love and respect expressed by all people for all people, regardless of race, creed, or color. —The Urban Dictionary This post is late, since for me the past week has been One Of Those Weeks™, but I really wanted to share what’s been on my mind. Recently I’ve been reading Dee Brown‘s classic book, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. I also went to visit (for the first time) a local park where the remains of a historic Maidu village are preserved, along with an attached museum. By coincidence, I’ve also been sorting through some of my very old photos, including some taken at the Miwok site called Chaw sé, also known as Indian Grinding Rock State Park. All this has given me a lot to think about. The Maidu village was perfectly located near a water source, and amid heritage oaks and other trees and plants. All the resources — water, earth, rocks, acorn, willow, tule — and the abundant animal life meant that the people had everything they needed to live well. They lived in connection to the earth, without wasting their resources and in full appreciation of all the earth provided to them. In the Miwok tribal roundhouse, they celebrated all the richness of these gifts and carefully passed on to the next generation the stories and traditions […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week was Locks, Keys, Knobs and Handles.
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 4, 2016: “The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords having a pleasing effect; the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.” Working in harmony traveling in harmony Gliding in harmony Pedaling in harmony