Back in January 1987, The Big Guy decided we should make a list of San Francisco Bay Area fishing piers and hit them all, one by one. That was why, at 8 AM on this particular day, I was sitting in an improvised chair in the back of our 1976 Camaro watching the rain pour down at Ballena Bay in Alameda. […]
I’ve never visited Providence Mountain, the first of the two State Parks Huell visits in this episode of California’s Gold, but I’ve been lucky enough to see the Indian Grinding Rock site. It’s a great day trip in a beautiful part of the Sierra foothills, and every time I watch this episode I want to go back and see it […]
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Dishes, Pots, Pans, Silverware. I just need to see Dishes, silverware or pots and pans. The everyday items we use for cooking and eating. See how creative you can get on this challenge. Have fun with this challenge. I took myself on a mini scavenger hunt last week in […]
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: June 11, 2017 Nearly every time I go out to Denio’s in Roseville I’m drawn to a corner in one building with a row of rusted old farm and industrial implements. I have no idea what most of them are or what they might be worth, if anything. And maybe I’ve watched too many episodes […]
This was my third year seeing the annual Pow Wow Days parade. Rather than stand along the parade route, I like to walk up Main Avenue, where most of the participants are staging before the official start. It’s a fun way to get a pretty close-up view of the classic cars before everything gets moving. There’s a great variety of […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of June 7, 2017. Rows, stacks, columns: this week, share an image that sends chaos packing (neatly). There are some places where a strict sense of order will always reign supreme!
In this episode of California’s Gold, Huell learns about a little-known but reliable communication service that briefly existed on Catalina Island in the late 1800s; after that, it’s a bit of Second World War history — in an episode he refers to as “Historic things that glide through the sky.” Huell soars above our state as we look at the […]
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Glasses, Cups, Saucers. I know your first question is, do I have to take all photos in my home an the answer is no your photos can be taken anywhere. I just need to see glasses, cups and saucers this week. The Chinese certainly played an important role in the […]
On the north side of the American, between Folsom Prison and the town of Folsom, is a ledge of solid granite called Slate Bar. The ledge permitted only what was called “crevice mining”… and mining was not as extensive as on other bars. In 1850 James Smith built a store on the bar. He built a sawmill the following year… […]