Every year at this time, Orangevale hold its local fair; the official title this year is Orangevale Town Fair — A Pow Wow Days Tradition. I admit I’ve never actually visited the site of the fair, but I do love to get out early on Saturday morning and photograph the yearly parade. There’s always so many different groups represented and […]
I was trying out my 28-90 mm lens this morning and caught these images of the CSUS rowing teams practicing on Lake Natoma. It doesn’t have as much zoom as my Canon point-and-shoot (its 50x zoom is apparently equivalent to a 24-1200 mm lens). Still, I’m enjoying getting used to the feel of the new camera and lenses. I like […]
I live a relatively short 30 miles from Capitol Park in Sacramento, but I have to admit I’ve never properly explored all it has to offer. I did spend a few hours exploring this beautiful park back in September 2017, but I still managed to see merely a small part of it — and that was made very clear to […]
This week I thought I’d share a few family pictures; some of these I’ve shared before, but I think they look better this time around! I’ve arranged them in more or less chronological order to show some of the changes we’ve gone through over the years.
Placerville is one of those places not too far up the road from where I live that I rarely visit, so this episode of Huell Howser’s Road Trip series is a good reminder how much great Gold Rush history is still preserved there. There’s plenty of fascinating stuff to see in this hour-long episode, including a trip to the Gold […]
A few of the images from a February-March 1957 road trip to the East Coast, including New York and Pennsylvania.
There are so many amazing and beautiful trees in California, I suspect they could form the basis of an entire series on their own! In this episode of California’s Gold, Huell visits three very special trees in Southern California. As I started watching this video, I may have felt slightly disappointed that Northern California wasn’t represented — but by the […]
I don’t get to stand by the roadside for every Tour of California, but I definitely try! This year, May has been extremely busy with so many things going on that the Big Guy just didn’t have the energy to watch the race other than on television; so I decided I might as well try to go by myself. But […]
Awhile back I covered the episodes from Huell Howser’s Road Trip series in which he visited the five corners of the California. Today, Huell undertakes an investigation to find the geographic center of the state — which turns out to be a little more complicated than you might expect! Huell travels in search of the geographic center of our state […]