The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Lines. I shot these photos at the Lakeport Historic Courthouse Museum last May. It really wasn’t all that long ago that a similar setup to this switchboard was state of the art in telephone communications! The operator controlled the lines and connected people to the numbers they wanted to reach. […]
Joaquin Miller is a name that seemed only vaguely familiar to me until recently; in fact, he was — as Stephanie Benavidez tells Huell — California’s best kept secret. While Miller earned a reputation as something of a scoundrel and a frequent embellisher of the truth, he was also a gifted poet and one of our country’s first environmentalists. For […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Rectangles and Squares.
On our coastal trips back in the “old days,” the Big Guy used to fish exclusively on sandy beaches for ocean perch; but at some point he made the transition to fishing from rocky cliffs and points, where he mostly catches rockfish and cabezon. And while he’s busy with his rod and reel, I’m usually off wandering with my camera […]
Waking up to morning fog on the Sonoma coast is never a surprise; it’s just part of the beauty of this part of California. Even after the mist burned off, we noticed some interesting cloud formations over the ocean — and later on a really beautiful sunset.
A good number of people in my neighborhood enjoy keeping a few chickens in their back yards for a steady supply of quality eggs. A short way down the road, the town of Fair Oaks celebrates chickens by letting them wander free on the streets of Old Town and has held an annual Chicken Festival every September since 2005. But […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Cars and Trucks.
I’m fairly sure I’ve shared all of these slides at some point (most of them are here); but some of them got separated from the rest and it wasn’t until now that I realized they all belong together. The images are from a 1958 road/camping trip my family took through Northern California and up into Washington State. I’ve tried to […]