The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 7, 2018. What do you love about where you live? Show us! I spend a lot of time on this blog sharing images from my local area and writing about how lucky I am to live here. What I love about this area is the sense of history buried just […]
Guiseppe Murer (1885-1972) was a leading citizen in Folsom from the time he first arrived in the early 1900s. He personally constructed or refurbished several of the structures along Folsom’s Sutter Street while still finding time to work in his gardens, regularly harvesting crops like asparagus, cherries, walnuts, and grapes. This historic house and property are being restored and preserved […]
Note: The second half of this post contains a couple of snake images from the Sacramento Zoo’s Reptile House.
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. Let’s see how creative you can get. I’m looking forward to what you all decide to post. I just want you to have some fun with your photography.
Flamingos come in many different shades of pink, thanks to their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae… and, apparently, sometimes a little bit of food coloring. Or in some cases, pink paint.
This episode of California’s Gold, first aired in 2006, tells the story of the four — or actually five — ceremonial spikes connected to the opening of the United States’ first transcontinental railroad. I now have to admit that even though I’ve seen and admired the golden spike on display at the railroad museum in Old Sacramento, I never realized […]
Of all animals, the outward form of the Lion is the most striking ; his look is bold and confident; his gait proud; and his voice terrible ; and from his great strength and agility, is usually styled the king of beasts — WILLIAM PINNOCK, The Guide to Knowledge Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter — ZIMBABWEAN PROVERB
