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 […]

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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 […]

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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!

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Two wonderful old buildings

Petaluma Silk Factory

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 […]

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WPC: Earth

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of May 6, 2016. Share your vision of our magnificent Earth through your lens. This is a great challenge; it’s something I usually try to do in my blog, which sometimes feels like a challenge in itself since I’m not much of a traveler these days.  Still, I think that earth’s beauty […]

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A bouquet of reds and yellows

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is The Colors Yellow and Red. Just like in the White and Blue Challenge you can show off photo that are basically all yellow or all red.  Plus I really encourage you to combine the both red and yellow colors in your photos. It turns out I don’t take very many pictures of things that are […]

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Happy

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge topic this week is Happy. Anything in this world that makes you feel happy or smile is allowed in this series.   It could be a beautiful land or seascape to a close up of a flower.  Your significant other, family, kids or even pets.  It could be a delicious plate of food or ice cream.  Show […]

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