(Click to enlarge.) From 1909 until 1967, the California State Fair grounds were located at Stockton Boulevard and Broadway in south Sacramento; the State Fair was held there annually except for 1942 through 1947, when the army occupied the fairgrounds due to the war. Nowadays we have the more centralized Cal Expo fairgrounds, and there are few if any remnants of […]
Back in the 1970s, there was a movie, called Born Free, about a lioness named Elsa. The movie’s theme song was a big hit for awhile; the first few lines ran: Born free/As free as the wind blows/As free as the grass grows/Born free to follow your heart. I had a friend who heard the song on the radio and […]
Las summer I started going through my dad’s old collection of color slides and scanning them to my computer — and cleaning them up as best I can. Since I finished with the images from Mexico, I’ve decided to go a little deeper into the past and share some of the more interesting photos in my family’s slide collection. This week […]
Farewell, Mexico Monday! Even though I suspect there still must be a few more slides somewhere around the house (including one of an 8-year-old me standing on a street corner holding onto a giant bunch of balloons), they have yet to turn up, so this will be my final week sharing my dad’s slide images of trips to Mexico. First, […]
This week, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Entrances and Doors. All buildings have at least one door. This week I want to see grand entrances and doors from a Cathedral to an old broken door found in a ruined building from long ago. Any building as long long as the entry or door is your main subject of your photo.
Next week I’ll be concluding my Mexico Monday series with the last few pictures of churches in the Ensenada area of Baja California. I’m thinking about carrying on in a similar theme with Memory Mondays — sharing some of the best images I’ve found as I sort through my family’s old photos. Any thoughts? Feel free to share!
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of November 4, 2016. This week, share your own take on chaos, whether it’s the mess in your living room, a busy street crossing, a party on the verge of getting a little out of hand, or any other subject that celebrates a lack of (visual) control. It’s always a little […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Commercial or Industrial Buildings. This week I want to see buildings of where we all work. Big skyscrapers, factories and huge warehouses that store commercial products or edible foods. A commercial building can also be a small building for those smaller stores and shops. At first I was completely intimidated by this week’s […]
A few more images from San Antonio de las Minas, near Ensenada, Mexico. The next slides were labeled “Loma Linda church.” And here my dad and another man are talking to someone he identified as Amador Roberte, possibly the pastor of the church they were visiting.