After my post one week ago, On the Art of Stacking Rocks, I quickly learned (again thanks to MickETalbot) that there is a very definite and important difference between merely stacking a bunch of rocks one on top of the other and the feat of coaxing one or more rocks to balance harmoniously in gravity defying positions. If I may quote from his […]
A few more images from San Antonio de las Minas, near Ensenada, Mexico. The next slides were labeled “Loma Linda church.” And here my dad and another man are talking to someone he identified as Amador Roberte, possibly the pastor of the church they were visiting.
Recently one of my fellow bloggers, MickETalbot, shared an image on his blog of one rock perched precariously atop another and this comment: Apart from my family I don’t personally know of anybody else who plays at rock balancing. None of them, or myself, have managed 3 high, still trying though. I live near and hike a lot in areas with […]
Even when my dad wasn’t spending summers traveling in Mexico with Frank Gonzales, he still found opportunities to travel and meet new people. These photos were taken on his trips to Baja California with Vacation Samaritan. The Vacation Samaritans were groups of mostly young people who voluntarily traveled from their churches to work sites in Mexico. They would help build […]
It’s hard for me to believe I’ve been doing this series for 14 weeks now! I’ve gone through most of my Dad’s slides from Mexico — but there’s still a few left, dated 1975 and later. This is my last bunch from the trips he made with Frank Gonzales and his team in central Mexico. I’m not sure what town this is; maybe […]
The house I grew up in (and lived in all my life until I was 25) had a fairly spacious living room. About once each year my mom would rearrange the furniture — shift the couch to the opposite wall, shove the Hi-Fi into the corner — just for fun, and for the sake of change. I loved it when we […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of October 14, 2016. This week, share what “local” means to you, and show us where your heart is. I share a lot of local photography on this blog, so choosing the right image for this challenge had me sort of stumped. There is so much about this area that I love; but I […]