Opposing colors
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Opposing Colors (blue/orange, yellow/purple, red/green).
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 30
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! This week I have a few images from my very first Christmas; after looking through these slides, I only wish there were more of them. Although I don’t have any actual memories from this particular Christmas, I do remember some of the items pictured — at least those that were still around a few years […]
Basically one color
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Basically One Color or Hue.
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 29
About a month ago I described what you could expect to see from my family slides in the next few weeks: … I’m briefly returning to boxed slides from 1957 — this week to Washington, D.C., and later to Chicago, Iowa, and San Diego, California. Did I say San Diego? Well, the box is labeled “San Diego 1959” — but […]
Pets
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 28
This week, I’m revisiting Chanute Air Force Base as it was in 1957. In December 2017 I wrote a bit about the history of Chanute and its decommissioning in 1993. Even after the base closed, the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum continued to display a number of airplanes until its closure in November 2015. The B-50 Superfortress (above) was a redesign […]
Two of anything
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Low water lake bed
I took these pictures on January 1, 2008, when the water level at Folsom Lake was low. The communities of Mormon Island and Richmond Hill, on the South Fork of the American River, were inundated after the construction of Folsom Dam in the 1950s, but fragments of these historic sites still linger.
A blast from the past
A few days ago in a post, I mentioned that I wondered if the Orangevale Palisades had ever been the site of hydraulic gold mining. I’m now a bit embarassed to admit I must have at one time known the answer to that question and completely forgot. The information was right under my nose, posted clearly on a sign beside […]