The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Gears and Engines. This series I call Odd Twists meaning we are looking for the bizarre and the common things we don’t always take photos of. This week the topic is Gears and Engines. Cars and the gears of a clock are obvious for this week’s topic. Let’s see how creative you can get […]
Hearst Castle, near the central coast, is one of the most amazing spots in California. It was created by William Randolph Hearst and architect Julia Morgan and completed in the mid 1940s. One could wander the house and gardens almost endlessly and never tire of the experience. I’ve been lucky enough to visit twice, but it remains near the top of […]
An exciting shipwreck story from the “Graveyard of the Pacific”; and members of the California Conservation Corps share their memories of helping restore one of the historic California Missions. Watch Huell as he embarks on a journey to the most dangerous spot on the California coast and find out why it is called “Devil’s Jaw”; then visit the jewel of […]
June 1978 — We spent two very full days in Victoria, and I’m certain we still missed a lot of great sights there. The Rolls Royce shown above was parked near the Royal London Wax Museum (which sadly, I just learned, was closed in September 2010); we didn’t pay to go inside, but I was entranced by the figure of […]
Huell meets a local artisan in Trinidad Bay who transforms redwood logs into beautiful canoes; then discovers a little-known landmark, the S.S. Palo Alto, a ship made entirely of concrete, docked at the Seacliff Beach pier in Aptos, and sails on the last remaining lightship in a line of floating lighthouses that once marked the entrance to the ship channel […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of January 6, 2016 Humans love naming things — look around you, and I bet you’ll see dozens of names. This week, take a photo of one!
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Jump Rope. Your photos this week can have anything to do with jumping or ropes or anything that hops or leaves the ground works in my book too. Things that might make you Jump: Plenty of Rope to be found aboard the C.A. Thayer and the Balclutha in San Francisco: