Big and Little
Up in the mountains there’s so much beautiful and impressive scenery to shoot. But it’s also fun to look for the small details. Hidden lake: Granite Lake small fry: Curious local:
Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: July 30, 2017 End of the road at Brown’s Ravine. This road leads to a parking lot and a launch ramp: Horse watering trough at Folsom Lake:
High Sierra
It was nice and cool in the mountains at 8700 feet (2651 meters) where The Big Guy and I went hiking today. Kind of hard to come back to the valley heat!
WPC: Satisfaction
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of July 26, 2017 This week, share something that satisfies you. Every year The Big Guy buys the yearly pass to our State Park system. Most of the time he uses it to launch his bass boat at the various lakes in our area. But he’s been telling me for awhile […]
The Adventure Continues… Railcars
The next best thing to a train is a rail car! I wasn’t even aware that Folsom had handcar races until I noticed this sign at the Folsom Railroad Museum; sadly, I missed the event this past May — but I’ve already got my calendar marked for next year! This episode of California’s Gold features the beautiful scenery of Northern […]
Memory Monday, Week 36
Pond fishing near Rocklin, Summer 1989 The site of the Spring Valley Ranch in Rocklin was one of our favorite local spots to fish for bluegill — a picturesque, undeveloped area dotted with old oaks and numerous small ponds. Nowadays if you go looking for our fishing grounds all you’ll find is the Whitney Ranch development — a lot of […]
Johnny Cash Trail
The Johnny Cash Trail Overcrossing in Folsom opened in late 2014, and I finally got around to having a good look at it!
Storm Damage revisited
It’s now been six months since rock slides closed the popular section of the American River Bike Trail just south of Negro Bar, and there’s still no firm date on when it might reopen. I first wrote about the closure just a few days after the slides happened in my post Storm Damages. And even though three months ago I […]
At Folsom Lake Crossing
Construction on Folsom Dam began in 1948, and the dam went into operation in 1956. Even now, additions and improvements are being made, like the new spillway, set for completion by the end of this year. Alongside the dam lies the Folsom Lake Crossing; this new bridge first opened in early 2009. It seems hard to believe now, but it […]