The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of December 13, 2017. Show us your interpretation of upward movement. I didn’t get a chance to experience the Balloon Safari when I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park last December, but it made for an irresistible sight as it ascended 400 feet into the air.
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:
My entry for Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge this week. This week the topic is Houses: big, small, lighthouses, birdhouse, firehouse, toys etc. This topic is fairly self-explanatory. Let’s see how creative you can get with this topic.
When I visited the beautiful Stanford Mansion in downtown Sacramento last June, I was disappointed to learn I wasn’t allowed to take photographs inside. So it really pleases me to see that in this episode of California’s Golden Parks Huell is highlighting most of the amazing rooms that impressed me so much… including the upstairs bathroom! When this episode originally […]
I shot these fading beauties during my morning hike near Lew Howard Park, on August 31, 2017.
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of November 29, 2017. This week, share a visual moment of blissful quiet. I went out this morning looking for a serene spot; I found myself hiking across the small Norma Hamlin bridge and into Snipes Ravine, only a few blocks from my house. I’ve walked along this trail many times, […]
This is a fun yet informative episode that I’d never seen until I stumbled upon it today, as I was going through the very long list of shows Huell Howser did around California. It makes clear what an important role Sutter’s Fort played in the development of the Sacramento valley during the Gold Rush and long after — not only […]
Believe it or not, it’s been a full year since I began this series; you can find my first Memory Monday post here, sharing a family trip through Minnesota, South Dakota, and the Grand Tetons of Wyoming. Just as I was beginning to run out of steam and thinking about retiring the series, my mom managed to dig up a […]
I was inspired to share this episode of California’s Gold after seeing Rebel Girl’s post Wind Power on the Photogate blog. I can only imagine what it must feel like to stand at the top of one of these massive machines! It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the scale of the rotors, even after seeing them from this […]