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 […]
These pictures were taken in 1975, on a trip my dad took without the rest of our family; some of them show the Casa de Niños orphanage, and you can see the difference between these and the photos from last week’s post. Just this week I discovered a few much more recent photos of the orphanage on the Fishin Mission Adventures […]
As I’m sure I have said before, the American River Parkway is an amazing green space in the middle of sprawling urban and suburban development. To quote from a wonderful little book titled The Lower American River, Prehistory to Parkway: It preserves a precious open space greenbelt through a largely metropolitan area with a population of more than 1.3 million […]