Look Up!
Ganesh gone astray?
This statue of Ganesh which I spotted in mid September is definitely one of the more surprising things I’ve seen on my hikes around the shores of Lake Natoma!
The Adventure Continues… Japanese American Home Movies
Despite the loneliness and despair that enveloped us, we made the best we could with the situation. I hope when you look at these you see the spirit of the people; people trying to reconstruct a community despite overwhelming obstacles. This, I feel, is the essence of these home movies — Dave Tatsuno, home movie maker This episode of California’s […]
The Color Yellow
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Yellows. This week the color is Yellows. You can show off photos you have taken of any yellow colors. Have tons fun with this challenge this week.
Mexico Monday, Week 13
These pictures were taken in 1975, on a trip my dad took without the rest of our family; some of them show the Casa de Niños orphanage, and you can see the difference between these and the photos from last week’s post. Just this week I discovered a few much more recent photos of the orphanage on the Fishin Mission Adventures […]
Suburban Deer
As I’m sure I have said before, the American River Parkway is an amazing green space in the middle of sprawling urban and suburban development. To quote from a wonderful little book titled The Lower American River, Prehistory to Parkway: It preserves a precious open space greenbelt through a largely metropolitan area with a population of more than 1.3 million […]
WPC: H2O
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of October 7, 2016. For this week’s challenge, share a photo that features H2O; the element of water. Water comes in many different states and guises. From a foggy morning to your favorite watercolor painting, how will you show H2O in a photograph?
Clouds, departing
The Adventure Continues… California Schools
Hi there — this is the second week of my Wednesday series featuring episodes of Huell Howser’s show, California’s Gold. I’m sharing links to the archived videos, partly because I’ve always enjoyed watching the series, and partly because I’m discovering there are an awful lot of episodes I’ve never actually seen — like this one. There are literally countless success stories in […]