Angels Camp Museum

This morning, Google Photos was nice enough to point out that it’s been four years since I last visited the Angels Camp Museum in Calaveras County. Much of the time, I ignore these little reminders, but today the timing was ideal. Only the other day, the Big Guy mentioned to me that we should go for a drive somewhere, flattering […]

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Memory Monday: Real photo post cards

Since the passing of both my in-laws this spring, I have become the caretaker of a rather large collection of family photos, some dating back to the early 1900s. While I’m sorting through them all, trying to decide which ones to share and which to keep private, I’ve found that even those prints without any identifying notes on the back […]

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Russian Gulch rainforest

It’s been nearly five months since we were last at the coast in Mendocino County, and with all our recent trips to Texas, it seems even longer. Hopefully we’ll soon be able to plan another visit; but in the meantime, I still have a lot of photos from previous trips that I haven’t yet shared. Today, here’s a look at […]

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May I always remember

Today I’m digging down deep into my archives, looking back at some of my favorite May images from between 2015 and 2020. When I examine my huge collection of photographs, it’s amazing to me how far I’ve come in just the past ten years. Even now, I’m far from an expert photographer, but my equipment has certainly improved, and I’d […]

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Friday flashback

I suppose this post should have been a Throwback Thursday; instead it’s more like Flickr Friday. These are a few of my images saved on Flickr that I had forgotten about until just a few days ago when I went scrolling through searching for something else. Each of these was shot during the month of April between 2009 and 2016, […]

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Little White Chapel

It was many years ago now that I first spotted this small church building in Roanoke, Texas. It looked strangely out of place, perched in a narrow wedge with new neighborhoods of large houses on one side and the big multi-lane Northwest Highway (State Highway 114) on the other. I was certain the building must have a story, but for […]

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Mountain View to Lake Mendocino

We have a number of options when it comes to driving home from the Mendocino coast, and all of them are at least somewhat winding and scenic. We’ve traveled State Route 20 from Fort Bragg east to I-5 in Colusa County; Highway 128 along the Navarro River to Cloverdale on U.S. 101; and of course the more indirect route, down […]

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