Well, I promise that I’m serious about moving onto other things for my Monday posts (I have at least one idea I like quite a lot). At the same time, I felt I really needed to re-scan the earlier ones from my family’s 1959 trip through South Dakota and Wyoming as a personal project — and the results are so […]
I almost stumbled into a bit of nearly forgotten history one sunny day last week, as I was hiking along the trail between Brown’s Ravine and Mormon Island at Folsom Lake. At the top of a prominent hill I was amazed to find stone foundations surrounding a large hole in the ground. It was obvious I wasn’t the only person […]
I spent last Sunday morning exploring the vernal pools near Mather Field, on a very fun and educational Flower Walk hosted by Sacramento Splash. So I thought today I’d share an episode of California’s Gold in which Huell takes a trip toTuolumne Meadows, in Yosemite National Park. He was visiting in the summertime rather than the spring, but there’s still […]
I think it would be fascinating to learn where each of these trees originally came from; there’s an awful lot of them flowing downriver this year and settling along the shoreline.
A little over a week ago, I finally went to check out this very low-profile state park located along Green Valley Road in Folsom. There are no interpretive signs or even an obvious entrance. I’m still not sure of the exact boundaries of the park; I followed a rather muddy trail that paralleled Green Valley Road for quite a ways, […]
Some of the sights from my recent walk along the American River in Fair Oaks.