This week I’m sharing the final set of images from my box of professionally photographed slides. I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing them as much as I have! I’ll be taking a break from Memory Monday next week (and possibly the week after that) as I try to decide what’s next. My new scanner has made such a huge difference in […]
There’s an awful lot to see and to learn at the Gold Bug Park and Mine in Placerville. We spent only part of the morning there and had a great time.
Today we had a very lovely rainy morning, and once the skies cleared — at least somewhat — I went out with the dog and found some more flowers, most of which I was able to identify with help from Google. Like the gorgeous pineapple guava blooms (Feijoa sellowiana) below:
Sometimes I’m not sure who works harder — the professional cyclists riding on the tour, or all the people who work around the edges of the event helping turn the race into a world-class event. Like the photographers who follow the riders on motorcycles, jumping off their machines and back on again, climbing up to and down from unstable perches […]
What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we’re in The Brick, we’re flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We’re under a roof. Wood. […]
Last Thursday we were standing by the side of the road as the 2018 Amgen Tour of California departed the city of Folsom and climbed through the foothills of Placerville up into the Sierra Nevada mountains to South Lake Tahoe. Here are a few images from our front row seat along the Mormon Emigrant Trail.