Summer Scenes
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Summer Scenes.
Moving water
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 18
Sequim Bay, Washington State — Our next stop on this northbound road trip is Sequim Bay State Park, located in the northeastern corner of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. This may have been only a brief visit, since I can find only two images, both night shots. Below, you can just make out the shiny 1957 Plymouth Belvedere and the darker outline […]
South African penguins
The California Academy of Sciences has a truly awesome aquarium on the lower level, but the South African penguins live at the far end of the African Hall — which is otherwise filled with non-living specimens (antelope, lions, etc). I arrived just as the keeper finished cleaning the enclosure and joined a small crowd of people watching these adorable little […]
At Carquinez Strait
Whenever I get the chance to travel between Sacramento and San Francisco on the train, I can never resist taking pictures out the window — especially where the tracks run along the shoreline of Suisun and San Pablo bays. There’s usually something interesting to see!
Lands End
Saturday morning at Lands End in San Francisco.
Memory Monday slide redux, Week 13
My next batch of slides date from 1956 and start with a trip to San Francisco. I originally shared these images back in January 2017 (see Memory Monday, Week 8). In that previous post I wrote about the long history of the Red and White Fleet; even today their boats cruise San Francisco Bay, setting out from Fisherman’s Wharf and […]
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 8
Images from Echo Summit and Lake Tahoe in 1951.
Lakeport anchorage
