Japanese Garden inside The Butchart Gardens, Victoria B.C. On the Queen of Alberni, ferry to Vancouver, BC. My dad took the picture on the bottom right, below, to show how hard the wind was blowing — the Canadian flag was standing straight out. State capitol building in Olympia, Washington. (I apologize for the poor quality of the images — I […]
I’ve decided to switch my blog theme over to Widely, mostly because I wanted to enlarge the size of my photo images. I hope you like the new look as much as I do!
June 1978 — We spent two very full days in Victoria, and I’m certain we still missed a lot of great sights there. The Rolls Royce shown above was parked near the Royal London Wax Museum (which sadly, I just learned, was closed in September 2010); we didn’t pay to go inside, but I was entranced by the figure of […]
Last Saturday night I walked over to the bluffs that overlook Lake Natoma and the city of Folsom, and I waited for the full moon to rise. I knew with my small hand-held camera I’d have trouble getting clear images. I didn’t care — I had to at least try. It was chilly, but I was alone in the dark […]
I’m still within my first year of hanging out a hummingbird feeder, and I’m slowly learning the ins and outs. My first feeder was beautiful to look at — but I found the sugar water dripped continually onto the ground and left nothing for any birds that happened by. After eventually replacing it with something less spectacular, I’ve begun to have more […]
In the summer of 1978, I took a road trip with my parents from Sacramento to British Columbia, Canada. We passed through Oregon and Washington State, making a few stops along the way to see the sites. Sadly, back then I wasn’t much into photography — but I made up for that shortsightedness (slightly) by taking copious notes and keeping […]
Thanks again to everybody for sharing these memories with me. Next week, we’re off on a 1978 road trip to British Columbia via Oregon and Washington State. See you then!
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Good and Bad. Good and bad is a matter of opinion most of the time. In old Western (US) the good guy always wore a white hat where the bad guy wore a black hat. Show us what is good and bad in your eyes. First, here are two photos […]
Each week, I’ve been trying to group the images together in ways that make sense, but the current slide carousel is completely mixed up, chronologically speaking — I’m not sure if there was a reason. So I’ve decided to finish up the current wheel (and the 1950s) by sorting the remaining slides into two categories: Places (this week) and People (next week). […]