Throwback Thursday: Clear Lake State Park

I have fond memories of Clear Lake going back to my childhood, when family car trips to Fort Bragg on the Mendocino coast meant traveling along the lake’s eastern shoreline (and occasionally stopping at the Foster’s Freeze in Lucerne, which is still there). Of course, Clear Lake, a very large natural lake, has many, many facets and even now I’ve […]

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Memory Monday: Heart of a fisherman

Although these images all came from the Korea photo albums, some of them feel so very familiar to me after 36 years of living with my own dedicated fisherman. For the same reason, I can make a few observations that might at least partly make up for not knowing the circumstances or the locations where they were shot. The two […]

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Memory Monday: Family memories

Most of the prints in my “Korea albums” are in color and date from the 1980s and perhaps early 1990s; but there are a handful of vintage black-and-white photos that really add to the depth and poignancy of this collection. Still, they provide more questions than answers. The single color photograph in this week’s collection depicts the original album owner’s […]

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Memory Monday: Snow day

I was so happy about the photos I shot last Saturday as we drove through a coast range snowstorm I nearly forgot it was actually time for Memory Monday! So instead I went through the “Korea albums” and found some images of family time in the snow to share today. These pictures provide a very good example of the nostalgic […]

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Memory Monday: High Sierra

I’m probably sounding like a broken record at this point, but again, I can’t be sure where these photos were shot. I do feel comfortable in guessing that it was somewhere in California’s Sierra Nevada, and some of these locations look somewhat familiar to me. One image actually includes a highway marker identifying Alpine County; that area is traversed by […]

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Memory Monday: On the mountaintop

I can’t be sure when this week’s photos were shot, but my guess is sometime in the early 1980s. As for the location, I’m fairly confident they all — with one excepton — show the peaks of the beautiful Sandia Mountains, just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. I actually drove through Albuquerque with the Big Guy last July and got a […]

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