Older than 50 years
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. This is a topic you can really have enjoy. Let’s see how creative you can get. I’m looking forward to what you all decide to post.
The Adventure Continues… The Lost Golden Spike
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 […]
Meet me at the station
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 […]
Walls — Indoors or Outdoors
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. Let’s see how creative you can get. I’m looking forward to what you all decide to post. I just want you to have some fun with your photography.
The Adventure Continues… Donner Memorial
So much has been written about the tragic fate of the Donner Party; there’s no shortage of opinions about what led to this group of pioneers becoming trapped in the snow-packed California Sierras during the winter of 1846-47 and what they did or did not do in order to survive. But there’s nothing quite like visiting the site of these events […]
Corners
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. Let’s see how creative you can get. This topic is fairly self-explanatory. I’m looking forward to what you all decide to post. I just want you to have some fun with your photography.
Memory Monday, Week 55
February-March 1957 Two weeks ago I started the narrative of this road trip with a look at Washington D.C.; but the nation’s capital was actually my parents’ last stop before turning west toward home in California. So this week I’d like to go back to the point where my mom and my sister arrived in Chicago on the train and […]
The Adventure Continues… Stanford Mansion
When I visited the beautiful Stanford Mansion in downtown Sacramento last June, I was disappointed to learn I wasn’t allowed to take photographs inside. So it really pleases me to see that in this episode of California’s Golden Parks Huell is highlighting most of the amazing rooms that impressed me so much… including the upstairs bathroom! When this episode originally […]
Sacramento Delta steam boats
The famous race of the Confidence and the Queen City, while not featured by gunfire, nearly ended in flames so far as the latter vessel was concerned. The Confidence, of California Steam, burned Philadelphia coal, imported at some expense; the Queen City, which belonged to the Marysville outfit, depended upon the cheaper and more plentiful local supply of wood. So […]