A lot of us have been experiencing some pretty stormy, cold weather lately, so I thought this week it would be nice to watch as Huell visits a dry lake bed in Southern California on a hot, sunny day. I’ve never had the chance to go land sailing, but as usual, Huell manages to make it look like great fun […]
Humboldt Bay is one of the most beautiful parts of Northern California with its huge coastal redwoods and rocky shore. In this episode of California’s Golden Parks, Huell visits Fort Humbold State Historic Park, established in 1963, and learns some of the area’s darker side in the small museum dedicated to sharing the stories of conflict between the incoming settlers and […]
If you’d like to see Huell at his most excited, here’s your chance! This episode of California’s Gold highlights another place I would love to experience for myself — especially since it’s located not far from our Northern California coast fishing spots; it’s just up the (very winding) road from Fort Ross. The drawback is that the lumbermill only operates a […]
According to Bridgehunter.com: “One of four bridges built by the County in a three year period between 1915 and 1918. The most famous was Rainbow Bridge built in 1917. The first bridge of the group was the Orangevale Bridge built in 1915. The final of the group was the Powerhouse Canal Bridge built in 1916.” I shot these photos in […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 7, 2018. What do you love about where you live? Show us! I spend a lot of time on this blog sharing images from my local area and writing about how lucky I am to live here. What I love about this area is the sense of history buried just […]
Guiseppe Murer (1885-1972) was a leading citizen in Folsom from the time he first arrived in the early 1900s. He personally constructed or refurbished several of the structures along Folsom’s Sutter Street while still finding time to work in his gardens, regularly harvesting crops like asparagus, cherries, walnuts, and grapes. This historic house and property are being restored and preserved […]
This episode of California’s Gold, first aired in 2006, tells the story of the four — or actually five — ceremonial spikes connected to the opening of the United States’ first transcontinental railroad. I now have to admit that even though I’ve seen and admired the golden spike on display at the railroad museum in Old Sacramento, I never realized […]
The Lower Folsom Powerhouse was put into service in 1897, two years after the opening of the original plant due to increasing demand for electricity in Sacramento. The lower powerhouse contains a single 750 watt AC generator. Since the building was located on the river bank, it has been flooded a number of times during the spring when snowmelt swells […]
Last week I went back for another visit to the California State Railroad Museum, hoping to improve on some of the images I shot on my first visit. I’ve struggled with the light conditions; in general the rooms are very dark, but the shadows are punctuated by bright spotlights in the ceiling and daylight coming from large windows at either […]