Category Archives: art

We just walked into Union Square, San Francisco, and there they were.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

June 10, 2013 by tchistorygal

SC got me started on this quest in a fleeting moment when I was thinking of writing something else entirely, but I do love WP Challenges. Some ideas to get you started: Observing nature and capturing a quiet, special moment. Experimenting with shots of movement. Taking a snapshot of someone deep in thought (or alternatively, in mid-action). Exploring a place that’s transient in nature (airports, stations, streets, etc.). We think this theme is open to many interpretations and look forward to […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, beach, California, Challenges, Experience, people, Photography, San Francisco, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Marsha Lee, Thai dancers, Thai festival San Francisco, Union Square

Founded in 1851, about the same time Tulare County was established.

WordPress Photo Challenge: Pattern

May 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

As Sarah Rosso says, “Patterns are everywhere. Patterns are sometimes intentional and sometimes accidental. They can be decorative or merely a result of repetition, and often patterns can be in the eye of the beholder to discover them.” I love lines and shadows, bricks and glass. Patterns can be numbers. like how many petals on a flower, or leaves on a stem, or points on a leaf. My friend Jean and I just got back from San Francisco. This beautiful church, […]

Rate this:

Categories: architecture, art, California, Challenges, Common Core, Education, San Francisco, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Marsha Lee, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Yerba Buena Gardens

Travel theme: Benches

April 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today I went with my friend Connie to the Best of the Valley Quilt Show at the McDermont Field House in Lindsay, CA. It was so overwhelming, I decided to use challenges and themes to tell part of the story. I took over 200 pictures, and it will take me over a year to tell you the story, and by then it will be time for another quilt show. I can’t believe how MANY talented quilters there are in this […]

Rate this:

Categories: animals, art, Challenges, Photography, Quilting, Travel Theme • Tags: animals, benches, Fine Art America, Marsha Lee, quilting

Manny the Sailor

February 22, 2013 by tchistorygal

In January Manny went to San Diego with the History Girls from all over California. Rumor has it that he got himself into some kind of trouble at the San Salvador. There were all kinds of displays there and the History Girls had a great time trying them out. But something happened, and Manny found himself ar the end of his rope. Just to prove it really happened, here’s the photo – unaltered by human Photoshop. Oh no!!! What do […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, beach, Bears, California, Photography, Travel • Tags: History Girls, Manny, Marsha Lee, San Diego, San Salvador

Piggles Again

February 17, 2013 by tchistorygal

Yesterday I got a comment from TOM, the other Marcia, and she told me I needed a tablet and a stylus to draw. Since she is an artist, and I definitely am not, I decided to try it. V dropped me off at Best Buy, and they told me that I needed a Bamboo tablet. They were only $99.00, and I decided that would be worth the amount of entertainment I would get from it. So it came home with […]

Rate this:

Categories: animals, art, Blogging, Featured Blog, pets • Tags: Art, artist, author, Bamboo, blogging, drawing, featured blog, Marcia Meara, tablet, Wacom, writing

Piggles was my favorite guinea pig of all times.

A Truly Retired Day

February 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

V is home, so my alone-time retired day is over, but I thought I’d share what it was like to be truly retired today. While I waited for the guy to fix the cabana, I spent several hours writing my first fiction book (short story – whatever it turns out to be), a romantic mystery about a therapist named Amanda Church. V named her. She’s beautiful and 41, widowed, smart, independent, and funny. (Hold on there Ralph, she’s not real!!!) […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, Blogging, Fiction, pets, Photography, Photoshop, Retirement, Writing • Tags: drawing, Guinea pig, Marsha Lee, Photoshop, Retirement, writing

This was the most time- intensive part. this was my fourth attempt.

Using the Creative Cloud by Adobe

January 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

As many of you know, the job of designing a brochure somehow dropped on my unartistic shoulders. I created something using the Creative Cloud for our Board Meeting on Saturday, and received immediate feedback about what to change. This was my first time ever to use Adobe Illustrator, and it represented about 8 or more hours of intensive effort. I just LOOKS so easy a first grader could do it! I would not call Illustrator an intuitive, user-friendly program. Today […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, Blogging, California, CCSS, Common Core, communication, Education, Experience, history-social science, Photography • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CS5, California Council for the Social Studies, designing a brochure, Marsha Lee

My first attempt using Adobe Illustrator

My First Photography Up for Sale on Fine Art America Website

January 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

I saw Enice’s photography on this website http://fineartamerica.com/, so I thought I’d give it a try as well. So far I only have 10 pictures posted, but they are also advertised on my Facebook page. I’m excited, because I finally got myself started. This business is mostly a hobby, but I would like it to be a successful hobby just because I like to be successful. The way I will measure success is that 1) the pictures are of technically of […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, California, CCSS, communication, Experience, history-social science, Organizations, Photography • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, California Council for the Social Studies, CCSS, CCSS.org, designing brochures, fineartamerica.com, Marsha Lee, nutsfortreasure, selling artwork

Another New Career: Designing Brochure Covers

January 20, 2013 by tchistorygal

I decided instead of not posting while I’m working, I would bring you into my workspace. Although I am not a graphic artist, I am designing covers for a new brochure for California Council for the Social Studies. So I’d like you to help me judge attractiveness. You should probably know what the organization is all about. Purpose California Council for the Social Studies advocates for and promotes social studies education as an essential foundation in developing citizens for a […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, CCSS, communication, history-social science, Organizations • Tags: brochure designs, California Council for the Social Studies, CCSS, Marsha Lee

Book Review: The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony

January 16, 2013 by tchistorygal

This book, The Elephant Whisperer, kept me on the edge of my seat the entire two days it took me to finish it. Considering that I was reading it on my cell phone the whole time because my Kindle needs to be emptied before I can load any more books, it’s amazing that I even stuck it out. Out of forty-two chapters, there wasn’t a single dud. I read it because I was intrigued when someone wrote that when […]

Rate this:

Categories: animals, art, Books, Common Core, Education, Featured Blog, people, Photography, science • Tags: Amy Share and Connect, book review, Common Core, conservation, Elephant Whisperer, featured blog, Greece, hiking, Italy, Lawrence Anthony, Marsha Lee, non-fiction, South Africa, Travel

Meet Margaret Sanger, named for a historic person. Do you know why Margaret is famous?

More Running P

January 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

Mike Pace was a history teacher. Sally was a high school counselor that raised more scholarships than almost anyone in the nation – per student. She was one of three in the NATION!!!! That’s how we all met. They retired a few years ago, and they both keep more than busy doing projects. They have created Running P Ranch as a place for others to enjoy with them. They host weddings, Kiwanis parties, and many other events. Yesterday I posted […]

Rate this:

Categories: agriculture, animals, architecture, art, California, Experience, people, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: events, fun, Marsha Lee, Running P Ranch, Tulare County, weddings

History Girls Rule San Diego Part 1

January 7, 2013 by tchistorygal

Maybe rule is not quite the right word. Roam might be better. Manny decided to go along. He had never been to San Diego. We were both ready to get out of the Tule Fog. By the time we got on the way up over the Grapevine, the fog was almost all gone, and blue skies prevailed. The weather in San Diego amazed me – no rain. It rains EVERY time I go there. Ok it rained today when we […]

Rate this:

Categories: architecture, art, California, Experience, hotel, parks, people, Photography, plants • Tags: Balboa Park, History Girls, Manny, San Diego

Travel Theme: Circles

December 10, 2012 by tchistorygal

Definition: A circle is the locus of all points equidistant from a central point. Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack, dreamed up a theme that made my mind go in circles trying to think of when I have ever photographed circles. But sure enough, when I looked through my pictures, I found circles had snuck into my collection unwittingly. Members of the California Council for Social Studies checked out the hotel in Burlingame where we will hold our annual conference in March, 2013. […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, CCSS, Education, Events, Organizations, Photography, Travel • Tags: circles, Marsha Lee, patterns, Photo Challenge: Circles, psychology of circles, Travel Theme: Circles

The Answer Is…

December 5, 2012 by tchistorygal

We didn’t have to wait until Friday. Tonia Hurst, a California gal, picked up on this little tendril right away. Congratulations Tonia!!! Gold Star Tonia Hurst!! Now, since you have been such good guessers, I have a couple of blogging questions to ask you. I am writing an article about blogging for What’s Happening in the Foothills, a Kiwanis magazine. What I wonder is what blogging had done, and is doing in your life? What makes it worth doing? Do you know […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, Books, Family, Fiction, Writing • Tags: A Tall Tale told by and Average Size Boy, dried grape tendril, Paula Terrill

Palm Desert Art Festival

November 15, 2012 by tchistorygal

Most of the time I don’t actually DO anything. I go places and look at stuff, and I listen to people, and I talk, both verbally and in writing. Since I met y’all I also take pictures so that you can shadow me as I don’t do anything. When the History Ladies (that’s my friends and I) got to Palm Desert, Debbie thought I might enjoy walking through the La Quinta art festival. This is a timely post because if you […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, California Desert, Experience, Photography, Travel • Tags: Art Under the Umbrellas, California, La Quinta Arts Foundation, Palm Desert, photography, Travel

Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

November 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

Yesterday you voted on possible covers for a Kiwanis magazine published in the foothill communities of Woodlake, Three Rivers, and Exeter,California. Thank you so much for your input. At one time I took a series of fruit tree pictures, and I couldn’t find them. I did find one picture, but I hated the sky. So I tried a Leanne. I tried to made major changes to it. Please tell me whether you think my work is believable, and if it […]

Rate this:

Categories: agriculture, art, California, clouds, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: brush tool, clone tool, color tool, fruit trees, Kiwanis, lasso tool, peach orchard, Photoshop

CBBH Photo Challenge: Blue

November 1, 2012 by tchistorygal

I heard about this MONTHLY photo challenge on East of Malaga’s website. Thanks EAST! The difference between this and other photo challenges is that at the end of your post, you should introduce two links to any other blogs you have visited and, most importantly, that you have commented on, during the past month. These links might be to someone who you are in regular contact with via your blog, a new blogger in need of some followers, or maybe aperson who inspires or motivates you […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, Experience, people, Photography • Tags: Arts Festival, CBBH Photo Challenge, dancer, Visalia California

Abstract Art

October 30, 2012 by tchistorygal

My former daughter-in-law is quite an artist. She can barely see, yet she turns out, what I think are absolutely beautiful paintings. I was talking to my new blogging friend Mike at Sum This Sum That about his wife’s work. She has a painting that looks like my Scardy Kitty posed for it. I told him about my DiL’s paintings, and he wanted to see them, so Mike these are for you – and all the rest of you, too!!! Cosmos […]

Rate this:

Categories: art, Experience, Photography • Tags: Abstract art, acrylic painting, Art, Visual art

Marsha Lee

Streaming Thoughts

Category Archives: art

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

Rate this:

WordPress Photo Challenge: Pattern

Rate this:

Travel theme: Benches

Rate this:

Manny the Sailor

Rate this:

Piggles Again

Rate this:

A Truly Retired Day

Rate this:

More Running P

Rate this:

History Girls Rule San Diego Part 1

Rate this:

Travel Theme: Circles

Rate this:

The Answer Is…

Rate this:

Palm Desert Art Festival

Rate this:

Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

Rate this:

CBBH Photo Challenge: Blue

Rate this:

Abstract Art

Rate this:

Follow “Marsha Lee”