The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Sky. Your photos can be a brilliant blue sky or a stormy sky. You can have objects in the sky or not. I just want to see plenty of blue skies and skies that are full of clouds and storms. A sky full of ever-changing clouds has been one of […]
The weather began to warm up very nicely today… just as we were loading up our gear to start for home. I hear it’s supposed to be in the 80 degree range at Clear Lake next week. It will be perfect weather — for somebody else.
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Winter — Water. You can take photos of anything that relates to the season of Winter or Water. Have fun with this challenge. Because Folsom Lake is a reservoir and a major source of water for the eastern part of Sacramento County, we’re used to seeing the water […]
The weather is looking a little uncertain for a fishing trip; the forecast is calling for clouds and a possibility of rain. Hopefully the conditions will be warm enough. April is a bit early for our annual trip, as we usually go in mid to late May. As you can see from these images taken last year, it wasn’t […]
Yes, I knew it had rained the night before; but I gambled that the mud wouldn’t be too thick and chose to wear my sneakers instead of my hiking boots on my morning hike. And I managed to keep my feet reasonably dry — until I arrived at this dew-soaked portion of the trail. The shortest weeds reached up to […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of April 19, 2017. Earth Day is near! This week, let’s celebrate this planet on which we live. No matter how thick the coating of asphalt we may put down, the truth is we still have very little control over the earth that we live on. At any moment, despite our […]
The last half of slide wheel number 6 took me back in time, from the mid 1970s straight to 1962, when I went camping with my family at Patrick’s Point State Park, on California’s far north coast. I was only about a year old on this trip; we did return there when I was a bit older, and I have […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Spring — Wood. You can take photos of anything that relates to the seasons of Spring or any kind of Wood. Have fun with this challenge.
After moving with his small family from a farm in Iowa to Washington State in the late 1920s, my grandpa began working for the railroad. The railroad had been pretty good to Leavenworth, at least for awhile. The Great Northern Railroad (now called Burlington Northern) ran its first line through Leavenworth in 1892, complete with division headquarters and a switching […]