… there’s a rainbow in the sky! Here in California, we’ve currently got another “firehose” pointed at us, with a few more feet of snow as well as pounding rain and lashing winds. It’s good news: every inch of snow, every drop of rain brings us further away from the drought of the past five years. To those of us […]
Join Huell and hike to the world’s tallest tree in Redwood National Park with a group of fifth graders from a nearby school; admire fields ablaze with golden color of California’s official state flower, the Golden Poppy, at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve in Lancaster; and climb to the top of magnificent Morro Rock for a beautiful view of […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Big and Small. You can have big and small objects in the same photo. Or you can have at least one photo of a very large item and one photo of a very small item in your photo. What I am looking for is great contrast. Big: The scow schooner Alma, built in 1891, docked at Hyde Street […]
Sitting just north of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach is the famous Cliff House Restaurant. It has a complicated and fascinating history and is currently on its fifth incarnation. The first Cliff House was built in 1853 by one of California’s more colorful Gold Rush characters, Sam Brannan. In the 1956 photo below, you can just see the top and rear of […]
I shot these photos on the afternoon of January 12, after the last of a series of storms blew through our area. All were taken as the Big Guy and I walked roughly half a mile from the house to a nearby store.
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of January 13, 2017. Ambience has the power to uplift your mood. What have you photographed with exceptional ambience? I was in the middle of the Botanical Garden in San Francisco, but as I climbed that steep, narrow trail, surrounded by beautiful plants and trees that were unfamiliar, I felt transported […]
Huell meets a local artisan in Trinidad Bay who transforms redwood logs into beautiful canoes; then discovers a little-known landmark, the S.S. Palo Alto, a ship made entirely of concrete, docked at the Seacliff Beach pier in Aptos, and sails on the last remaining lightship in a line of floating lighthouses that once marked the entrance to the ship channel […]