The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 25, 2016. Share a photograph inspired by a favorite poem, verse, story, or song lyric. Bonus points if you share why the particular text resonates with you. (Though you certainly don’t have to!) If you’re not feeling especially literary or musical this week, see if you can capture the […]
She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: `Where’s the other ladder?–Why, I hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other–Bill! fetch it here, lad!–Here, put ’em up at this corner–No, tie ’em together […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Outdoor Seating. I thought it would be fun to share some of my most memorable benches and chairs — including a trip to The Brick, which featured in the TV show Northern Exposure, and a flashback to 1974, when I visited Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm for the first time. Enjoy! […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week was Indoor Seating. Angel Bob (David Atkins): The Angels are feasting sir. Soon we’ll be able to absorb enough power to consume this vessel, this world and all the stars and worlds beyond. The Doctor: Well, we’ve got comfy chairs, did I mention? Angel Bob: We have no need of comfy chairs. The Doctorto Amy: I made him say “comfy chairs”. Well, the first thing that popped into my mind was the above scene from “Flesh and Stone” (Doctor Who, Series 5). And then I thought about these fairly comfy — and fancy — looking chairs which I saw in the Folsom History Museum on Sutter Street, as part of their Folsom’s Historic Places exhibit.
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 11, 2016: One love refers to the universal love and respect expressed by all people for all people, regardless of race, creed, or color. —The Urban Dictionary This post is late, since for me the past week has been One Of Those Weeks™, but I really wanted to share what’s been on my mind. Recently I’ve been reading Dee Brown‘s classic book, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. I also went to visit (for the first time) a local park where the remains of a historic Maidu village are preserved, along with an attached museum. By coincidence, I’ve also been sorting through some of my very old photos, including some taken at the Miwok site called Chaw sé, also known as Indian Grinding Rock State Park. All this has given me a lot to think about. The Maidu village was perfectly located near a water source, and amid heritage oaks and other trees and plants. All the resources — water, earth, rocks, acorn, willow, tule — and the abundant animal life meant that the people had everything they needed to live well. They lived in connection to the earth, without wasting their resources and in full appreciation of all the earth provided to them. In the Miwok tribal roundhouse, they celebrated all the richness of these gifts and carefully passed on to the next generation the stories and traditions […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 4, 2016: “The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords having a pleasing effect; the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.” Working in harmony traveling in harmony Gliding in harmony Pedaling in harmony
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things That Are Wet. Interesting topic for me, living in drought-stricken California! Here’s what came to mind: This was a few years ago; if you look carefully, you can see the gutters are filled with rushing water (not to mention the wind has blown some branches out of our tree). On this cold, wet day I was walking across the bridge when I looked down and saw someone had dropped some Hershey Kisses. It made me feel just a little bit sad. 🙁 This fair-sized sturgeon lives in the giant tank at Bass Pro Shops store in Rocklin, California. He’s definitely wet and plans on staying that way. Here are Buster and Pinkie going a little bit crazy and trying to bite the cascade of water shooting out of the sprinkler. The game was never over until they were both completely drenched. And of course, there’s not too many things wetter than the ocean! I took this video because I wanted to be able to revisit the Northern California coast and listen to the relaxing sound of the surf any time, even if I was stuck at home in the hot Sacramento Valley. The only thing missing is the smell of the salty air.
In honor of Leap Year 2016, I’m sharing some of the amazing flowers I’ve been seeing around my neighborhood this month. Since this is the first time in my life I’ve started paying much attention to flowers, I had to do quite a bit of internet research, trying to ID each one. Thanks to Google and the awesome Wildflower Identification Guide, I think I’ve […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 26, 2016: “This week, let your inner world and the outside one converge in a photo.” I was seriously doubting I would be able to complete this week’s challenge; this may be a lesson to me to pay much more attention to what’s going on inside myself while I’m looking through the camera lens! But then I remembered a solo hike I took a few weeks ago, near the end of January. I walked from my house and across the bridge to Old Folsom (about 3 miles one way). It was a cool, cloudy day; it had been raining the previous day, and as I crossed the bridge the rain began pouring down again. I was wearing my new rain jacket which reached only just below my hips, so my trousers and boots were soon soaked. The rain abated by the time I reached Sutter Street — where I was pleased to discover a farmer’s market I never knew about, and managed to dry out a little. And as I started on my way back across the bridge in the direction of home, it was obvious I wasn’t the only one braving the elements to get some exercise. Still, as the cold rain returned and continued beating down, I found myself trudging along a deserted bike trail. I was cold and wet, and even though I’d walked this path countless times before, the warmth […]