Life is always better when you have something to look forward to — no matter how small that something might be. Right now, I’m looking forward to my vacation in mid August. In fact, I’m so obsessed with my upcoming adventure that I’ve actually got a countdown app on my phone! That seemed like a fun idea at the time […]
We are right smack in the middle of fire season here in California, with at least one dangerous wildland fire burning uncomfortably close to Yosemite National Park. So I thought it was fitting to have a look at one of the Forest Service’s historic fire towers. These days, most of the towers have been abandoned or even turned into vacation […]
D. carota was introduced and naturalized in North America, where it is often known as Queen Anne’s lace. Both Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and her great grandmother, Anne of Denmark, are taken to be the Queen Anne for which the plant is named.[16] It is so called because the flower resembles lace, prominent in fine clothing of the day; the red flower in the center […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is the Week 3 Photo. This week’s possible topics are purple, colors, wood, garage, vintage car, flames, indoor, lantern/light, upholstery/fabric swatches, poster, power, cords, etc. If you see other topics, you can use that too. Just tell us what your topic is.
Typing “39th Fighter Squadron” into Google gets me a lot of information about the squadron’s history in World War 2 and Korea, mostly focused on the pilots who flew missions over hostile territory. But I don’t find too much about the hard-working ground crews who maintained the planes so they would return safely to base after the day’s job was […]
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: July 22, 2018
July is not my favorite month, mostly because of the heat. Still, there are plenty of good things that happen during July: Independence Day, family birthdays, anniversaries — and of course the Tour de France. And no Tour can be really complete until I see the peloton riding through a field of sunflowers: Since that video doesn’t really do justice […]
