I know I keep talking about the heat this summer; actually yesterday morning I started musing that it’s already August, September will soon be here (although September is usually still a warm month in these parts), and the next thing you know it will be autumn. That led me to wonder how much rain and snow we’ll get this coming […]
Higher Elevations, Summer 1987 When we weren’t traveling to the coast or fishing in our own backyard, The Big Guy and I liked spending a day or two up in the mountains — especially during the summer when the temperatures were uncomfortable in the valley. Back then our house had only an old “swamp cooler” and sometimes it just wasn’t […]
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: July 30, 2017 End of the road at Brown’s Ravine. This road leads to a parking lot and a launch ramp: Horse watering trough at Folsom Lake:
It was nice and cool in the mountains at 8700 feet (2651 meters) where The Big Guy and I went hiking today. Kind of hard to come back to the valley heat!
At the moment it seems like most of the northern hemisphere is experiencing a fairly miserable heat wave — and I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s more than ready for cooler weather. If I could just take off and head to the coast or the mountains, I’d be gone! Today the projected high temperature in my part of […]
Leavenworth, Washington, located in the Northern Cascade Mountains, is a tiny town incorporated in 1906 and relying heavily on the railroad and the timber industry. By the 1960s the town was struggling for economic survival — and that was when the leaders came up with the idea of remodeling Leavenworth as a Bavarian village to attract tourists. As a child, my […]
Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite, in 1951: View of the Yosemite Valley: Half Dome, 8,842 feet (2,695 meters): The bottom and left photos are labeled “Over Tioga Pass.” The Tioga Pass area, on the eastern side of Yosemite, is full of hiking trails and sights such as Tenaya Lake and the Tuolumne Grove of ancient Sequoias. With this photo — a view of Echo […]