Scenic Sunday
Rattlesnake revisited
Rattlesnake Bar sits far up the North Fork of Folsom Lake, near Newcastle. I’ve been there many times over the past 30 years with the Big Guy. We would usually park near the boat ramp and walk the trail to Avery’s Pond and Mormon Ravine; but we also explored the southern shores of the park, around the former site of […]
Scenic Sunday
Scenic Sunday
Stripes and splashes
I’m so grateful now for the day I spent with the Big Guy on his bass boat late last June. We launched from Vieira’s Resort near Isleton on the Sacramento River, and explored northward toward Liberty Island and into Lindsay Slough before turning south. We passed underneath the Rio Vista Bridge and found a striped bass “honey hole” alongside Sherman […]
Ebb and tide
Exaxtly one year ago, I was on the Mendocino coast with the Big Guy for yet another fishing and hiking trip. During our stay, we spent a fair amount of time inside our rented house, staring out at the pouring rain and trying to keep the fire in our stove from going out. For a short time, we were even […]
Scenic Sunday
Wandering
My mission for last Sunday called for driving out to Denio’s swap meet in hope of discovering some sort of well-loved furniture piece for my all-too empty house; I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted, but it was a good excuse to get outside for a bit. Once I’d arrived and parked, I soon found myself wandering aimlessly among the […]
Memory Monday
People always love to dress up in costume for Halloween, and since last Friday was October 31st, I dug through some of my family photo archives (both my family and the Big Guy’s) and came up with a few costumes from the past. Some of them would perhaps rather be forgotten; I had been keeping the photos from 1983 of […]