Rusted Sentinels
Screws controlling head gates in the Folsom East Canal, built 1893
WPC: Look Up
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of July 8, 2016. For this week’s challenge, take a moment to look up. Whether it’s the fan above your head at work, your bedroom ceiling, or the night sky, what do you see? Is it familiar? Or does it show you a new perspective on your surroundings? As I’ve mentioned (many […]
Local bridges
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Bridges. Bridges come in all shapes and sizes. It can be a small bridge just long enough to cross a small stream or creek to bridge that spans for miles. Your bridge can be one of beauty and geometry to just a couple of wooden planks to cross your bridge. As long […]
Down the garden path
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Walks — Indoor or Outdoor. For outdoors you have have paths or trails and consist of dirt, cement, gravel as long as the outdoor walk is a designated for walking only. Indoor walking areas can be hallways, aisles in stores. Make sure all your walking areas are designated for walking, you can’t just show a […]
Fountains, Vintage and Modern
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Fountains. This week’s topic is Fountains. They can be huge outdoor fountains to the tiniest of indoor zen fountains. Just have fun with this challenge. The topic sparked a memory for me, so I went digging in my box of old photo prints and found this lovely fountain on a post card my […]
Motivation
Every now and then it strikes me all over again how much I love living in this particular lovely corner of the world, and how very lucky I am to be able to get outdoors nearly every day and enjoy it. This proud little sparrow and I just can’t help singing the praises of living near Lake Natoma!
Life in the big city
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is All About Cities (Skylines to Street Photography). Any city scene is allowed in this challenge. Cities come in all personalities, shapes and sizes. Anything you like about a big city is allowed. You can show off your cityscapes, obvious city buildings of any kind, street photography. I don’t spend much time in the […]
2016 Amgen Tour of California, Stage 6
As I previously promised, here’s a quick recap of our view of the Individual Time Trial in Folsom (on May 20) along with some of our best photos. For more, see my Flickr album, here. The afternoon started out bright and breezy, but by the time the last competitor was nearing the finish line, black clouds were descending on us, threatening […]
Two wonderful old buildings
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this weeks is Architecture: What types of building appeal to you: Modern Art, Historical, Colonial, Gothic, European, Asian, Commercial, Industrial? Take your pick. do you like? Any building that you like, for any reason is appropriate for this week’s challenge. I’m always fascinated by Victorian-style architecture, and there are plenty of great examples scattered throughout Northern California. Here […]