Today I was planning to feature a completely different episode of Visiting, but then I happened to read the blurb from this one, which originally aired in July 1999. Since I actually mentioned foraging in my post on Monday (Earth Day), it felt only fitting to take a look at some serious foraging right in the heart of Los Angeles. […]
Yesterday ‘s post featured a visit to Iwasaka Images of America, a Southern California company that produces extremely realistic and delicious-looking samples of food, mainly for the restaurant industry. I’m not sure if the food images I saw last summer in the window of this restaurant were created by that same company, but it’s quite possible they were. The cafe, […]
I’ve heard it said you should never go grocery shopping on an empty stomach — and perhaps I also shouldn’t browse through the Huell Howser Archives on an empty stomach! Huell definitely loved to do segments involving food, and many of his segments involved going in search of various types of food, where he was always very happy to do […]
Last Wednesday I featured an episode of California’s Gold that included a short segment on abalone diving in Northern California; it was only after I’d completed the post that I realized there was an entire half-hour episode from 1999 on the same topic, delving deeper into the history of abalone and its role in California culture. It’s packed with great […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Anything Man Made.
The black bears at Folsom Zoo Sanctuary seem pretty mellow — although I wouldn’t want to find myself inside their enclosure. On the other hand, this cat has made herself at home in the bear enclosure, and the bears don’t seem to mind her presence at all. I was visiting during the noontime feeding so I got to watch the […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Letter Q – Simply needs to have the letter Q. Let’s see how creative you can we can be on this challenge. Have fun with this week’s challenge. Vaquero room at Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento: Examples of quartzite found near Lake Natoma:
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Needs to have the letter O anywhere in the word. All my images for today’s challenge are from my archives, except for the goose, which was taken on my walk yesterday morning. Let’s see how creative you can we can be on this challenge. Have fun with this week’s challenge.
All I have to do is dump a bag of whole peanuts under the trees in my yard, and customers start coming out of the woodwork.