Memory Monday, Week 24
Memory Monday, Week 22
This week I thought I’d feature a few faces rather than just places. I’ll start back in 1959, on the trip my parents and two older sisters took through South Dakota (I previously posted about that trip here), and a couple of very special photo opportunities with the locals at Mt. Rushmore and Hill City. I have some great memories of […]
Memory Monday, Week 21
The last half of slide wheel number 6 took me back in time, from the mid 1970s straight to 1962, when I went camping with my family at Patrick’s Point State Park, on California’s far north coast. I was only about a year old on this trip; we did return there when I was a bit older, and I have […]
Memory Monday, Week 19
After moving with his small family from a farm in Iowa to Washington State in the late 1920s, my grandpa began working for the railroad. The railroad had been pretty good to Leavenworth, at least for awhile. The Great Northern Railroad (now called Burlington Northern) ran its first line through Leavenworth in 1892, complete with division headquarters and a switching […]
Memory Monday, Week 18
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 […]
Memory Monday, Week 16
Japanese Garden inside The Butchart Gardens, Victoria B.C. On the Queen of Alberni, ferry to Vancouver, BC. My dad took the picture on the bottom right, below, to show how hard the wind was blowing — the Canadian flag was standing straight out. State capitol building in Olympia, Washington. (I apologize for the poor quality of the images — I […]
Memory Monday, Week 15
This week, due to a few technical difficulties, I’ve got only a few of the slides from our visit to The Butchart Gardens outside Victoria, B.C.; hopefully I’ll be able to share the rest of them next Monday The Butchart Gardens, B.C., first began in 1904 as a small garden near a quarry and cement plant. The property now extends […]
Moonlight Sonata
Last Saturday night I walked over to the bluffs that overlook Lake Natoma and the city of Folsom, and I waited for the full moon to rise. I knew with my small hand-held camera I’d have trouble getting clear images. I didn’t care — I had to at least try. It was chilly, but I was alone in the dark […]
Happy Hummers
I’m still within my first year of hanging out a hummingbird feeder, and I’m slowly learning the ins and outs. My first feeder was beautiful to look at — but I found the sugar water dripped continually onto the ground and left nothing for any birds that happened by. After eventually replacing it with something less spectacular, I’ve begun to have more […]