Mementos
The Adventure Continues… Avenue of the Giants
I’m not familiar with any of the sights Huell visits in this hour-long episode of Road Trip, but I’ve definitely heard of the Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Since I recently featured this part of Northern California in my Memory Monday posts, I thought it would be nice to see them from Huell Howser’s perspective. All […]
The Adventure Continues… Circus Trees
I noticed that the scheduled theme for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge tomorrow is Tree Art, so it seemed a perfect time to share this episode of California’s Gold from 2004. In fact, this is one of those episodes I believed I’d already featured, because it’s so full of fun and amazing examples of tree art. Although the adventure […]
Coastal clouds
Waking up to morning fog on the Sonoma coast is never a surprise; it’s just part of the beauty of this part of California. Even after the mist burned off, we noticed some interesting cloud formations over the ocean — and later on a really beautiful sunset.
Sonoma coast sunset
Trees
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Trees.
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 9
This week, a few more scenes from Lake Tahoe plus a couple from Donner Summit. I’m including a couple of images of Lake Tahoe’s waters that I previously skipped over because the prior scans didn’t exactly work out. In my original post I included a few notes about the history of US 40 — now Interstate 80 — seen, above, […]
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 8
Images from Echo Summit and Lake Tahoe in 1951.
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 7
This week I’m finishing up the scenes from the Yosemite region shot in 1951. You can find my previous Yosemite post (week 6) right here; and you’d like to compare my earlier versions of these slides, you’ll find them in my Memory Monday, Week 5, post from December 2016. Next week, I’ll take another look at some slides from Lake […]