This is my very first year-end retrospective post! 2016 was the first year I began taking my blogging more seriously, posting on a regular basis with more scheduled posts. I’ve still got plenty to learn as I go forward, but I think I’m off to a promising start. And much thanks goes to you, my fellow bloggers and readers, for […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of December 30, 2016: This week, share a photo of something that says “resilient” to you. It could be a local landmark that has survived through the decades (or centuries), or a portrait of a person you know who never gives up. You could snap an image of a bed of […]
Coming home from our Christmas trip to Texas, I was so happy to get the window seat on the flight from Dallas-Fort Worth back to Sacramento! Usually I’m sitting on the aisle; and while that’s not so bad… well, there’s usually not much to look at. This time, I was ready with my trusty Finepix AX655 and spent at least […]
Upland was hard hit by the 2003 wildfires and there is much rebuilding still to come. For the holiday season, this tight-knit community joined together to recreate a brilliantly lit star on a hilltop which shined for many years, but was destroyed by the fires. It is again a sign of hope and renewal for everyone who sees it. Many […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Duck Duck Goose: Your photos this week can have anything to do with ducks or geese. They are birds, so I will let in anything bird as well. There’s no shortage of ducks and geese around here, from the wild Canada geese who stop by on their annual migration (and […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of December 23, 2016. For this photo challenge, show us what path means to you. Consider the journey you’ve taken this year (or where you hope to go in 2017) and share a snapshot of this personal path, whether figurative or literal. A path can look like the one in the […]
