Memory Monday on a break

Memory Monday is on a break today. I’ll see you again next week! In the meantime, here are a couple of re-scans of vintage commercial slides dating back to the 1950s. I’m still trying to figure out if I ever shared the re-scanned (i.e., improved) versions of these images, which I originally shared back in March and April 2018.

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August flashback

As I write this, it seems that winter has returned for another round of rain, snow, sleet, hail, and everything in between — not only in my neck of the woods but all around the continental US. Going on vacation in the coastal redwoods may not have been the greatest idea right now, but we were eager to escape from […]

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Fine art Friday

I already feel like it’s been far too long since I wandered through an art museum; my most recent visit was to the de Young in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park last August. This morning I’ve been looking back at some images from both this outing and from my trip to the Crocker Museum in downtown Sacramento back in September […]

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Throwback Thursday: Flowers of February

First today, a bit of housekeeping. Because of an odd and somewhat annoying WordPress quirk, the post that I published last Tuesday (21 February) is showing up as being published on Saturday 21 January; so I’m linking to it here — Victorian envy — just in case anyone would like to see it! With that out of the way, I’ve […]

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Memory Monday: On the mountaintop

I can’t be sure when this week’s photos were shot, but my guess is sometime in the early 1980s. As for the location, I’m fairly confident they all — with one excepton — show the peaks of the beautiful Sandia Mountains, just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. I actually drove through Albuquerque with the Big Guy last July and got a […]

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The human touch

It’s been quite awhile since I last visited the trail along Hinkle Creek and I figured I was about due to return! I was curious to see if there had been any changes — but for the most part things looked about the same, much to my relief. One spot along the trail that I especially remembered is a small […]

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Into the unknown

I’ve been reading Nathaniel Philbrick’s excellent book, In the Heart of the Sea, about the whaling ship Essex (it sank in the Pacific Ocean in 1820 after tangling with a sperm whale and became Herman Melville’s inspiration for the novel Moby Dick). The surviving crewmembers, adrift in the ship’s boats, had to decide where their best chance of rescue lay […]

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