When I was in San Francisco last August, one destination firmly on my itinerary was Ocean Beach, the Cliff House, and the Great Highway. I was drawn there after reexamining my family slides from 1956 — which I shared back in Memory Monday weeks 8 and 9 — including images of my grandfather and my aunt walking along Ocean Beach […]
Earlier this month I showed you the pathway/stair portion of the redevelopment project on the south side of the Lake Natoma Crossing. This post will cover two remaining parts of the construction — the stairs leading down from street level and the paving of the overlook near the shore. Even though I didn’t take my photos by an organized schedule, […]
I took another hike through the rock slide area on the bike trail today — I really do try to stay away, but there’s something really fascinating in the destruction. After more than a year, there is still no definite date for the trail to reopen; progress seems bogged down by environmental reviews, safety considerations, financial responsibility and other bureaucratic […]
The redevelopment project on the south side of Lake Natoma Crossing was finished a little over a year ago; it created an ADA (Americans with Disabilities) accessible path along the water and rerouted part of the bike trail. The construction work went on for nearly 2 years, and during that time I often stopped on the bridge to check the […]
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Alone. You can photograph anything that appears to alone or possibly lonely for this challenge. Let’s see how creative you can we can be on this challenge.
The bridge over Robber’s Ravine may be new, but this area of Folsom holds plenty of history.
Even though these flowers have clearly passed their peak of beauty, I still find them irresistible.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the freeway sign pointing towards Mare Island was yet another of the familiar signs I saw along the road to San Francisco’s Bay Area, but I never really thought about what sort of place it was or what went on there until much later. In this episode of California’s Gold Huell tours the naval shipyard […]