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Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

May 22, 2013 by tchistorygal

Visited by thousands of readers in more than 155 countries around the world, LetsBeWild.com is all about getting people outside – the great outdoors is where it’s at when it comes to having fun & living life to the fullest! Our Wild Weekly Photo Challenge encourages bloggers to head into the wild (or the backyard) and photograph something that they feel fits the weekly theme. Once you’ve posted your blog entry, comment on the Challenge theme that you’re entering with […]

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Categories: Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: Beaches, Bravo Lake, Marsha Lee, photography, Wild Weekly Photo Challenge 31

Here Robert has us gathered at Huntington Park across from Grace Cathedral.

Alfred Hitchcock In SF

May 21, 2013 by tchistorygal

As I begin to compose this post, I am listening to the stories about the tornadoes in Oklahoma, and I’m so sorry for those of you who are dealing with those horrendous storms. I have to stop writing and watch the news. This post will have to wait until tomorrow. The tornadoes are more frightening than anything that Hitchcock imagined, and more urgent for you to watch and read as well. My thoughts and prayers are with those who are […]

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Categories: architecture, California, Experience, San Francisco • Tags: Argonaut Book Shop, Fairmont Hotel, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, SF Walking Tour, Vertigo, Vertigo Hotel

San Francisco Walking Tour

May 16, 2013 by tchistorygal

Sixty-seven percent of you wanted to read more about the walking tours we took. (that’s about 4 of you!) Walking tours in San Francisco are free, ours were both well attended. On Saturday we walked a mile around the very flat Embarcadero area, and on Sunday we hiked UP Taylor Street to California and spent two hours exploring the old haunts of Alfred Hitchcock. Fortunately we did that tour during the daylight hours, and there were no birds out, […]

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Categories: architecture, California, Experience, Photography, San Francisco • Tags: alfred hitchcock, clock tower, neiman marcus, San Francisco Embarcadero, San Francisco walking tours

Norton I, Emperor of the United States…

May 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

Joshua Abraham Norton came from England to the United States, and like thousands of others rushed to California to enlarge his already hefty fortune of $40,000. After amassing up to $250,000 at his peak, Norton eventually lost his fortune and his sanity. Losing his sanity, however, did not affect his ability to make an impact on his community. Good-looking, with a TOUCH of grandiosity, he declared himself Emperor of the United States, fired the President, and abolished Congress through a series […]

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Categories: California, history-social science, San Francisco • Tags: Emperor Norton I, Joshua Abraham Norton, Marsha Lee, San Francisco history

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, […]

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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

My friend Elane. Yes, I spelled it right.

My First Yoga Class

May 8, 2013 by tchistorygal

This weekend after my meeting in Los Angeles, and my dentist’s appointment in Brentwood, I spent a couple of days with my friend, Elane Geller. Elane is amazing. At age 70+ she can run circles around most of us. She was a special speaker at a high school on Tuesday, so she did two lectures, then we went out to a restaurant to meet two more students so she ended up doing an impromptu third session. Then on Wednesday we […]

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Categories: About, Experience, food, Travel • Tags: Umami Burgers, Yoga class

The Paso Place to Go

May 5, 2013 by tchistorygal

A few weeks ago we had lunch with our friends Spencer and Margaret in Paso Robles, CA. Paso has the best of both worlds. You have just exited the most soporific road trips through the hills past Kettleman City. Unless I’m driving, I sleep through these hills. El Paso del Robles, passage of the Oaks, is an old western town dividing the two worlds, the desert heat of the Kettleman City hills and the Tulare Lake Basin, and the Central […]

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Categories: architecture, California, mountains, Photography, San Luis Obispo County • Tags: Marsha Lee, Paso Robles Inn, Road trip, Vallecation

Bellavista

April 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

As a native Hoosier, my tendency is to be hospitable. My mother always loved to have company, and it didn’t matter when you came, if she was home, she would get you a glass of iced tea or Pepsi, and you all would sit down and visit. At Grandma’s that visit also included a walk through the yard to see what had bloomed since the day before when you were last there. I guess I haven’t outgrown that upbringing. Even […]

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Categories: About, Family, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: family, hospitality, landscaping, Marsha Lee, yard art

Word a Week Challenge: Worker

April 25, 2013 by tchistorygal

I found this A Word A Week Challenge browsing your websites. Workers, are they professional, blue-collar, amateurs learning a hobby? Are workers those who work outside or inside? Is work physical or mental, or both? Genesis tells us that six days God worked, and on the seventh day God rested. I’m sure his work involved a bit of thought and creativity as well as some pretty heavy lifting – even if He was just filling craters with water and […]

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Categories: agriculture, Challenges, Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: A Word A Week Challenge, Marsha Lee, photography, social studies lesson, workers

Wildflower Photography Class

April 22, 2013 by tchistorygal

I’ve been shopping at Mike”s Quality Camera for several years, since I got my digital camera at Costco, and the original lens quit working correctly (after the warranty expired). This was my first official photography, meaning light-writing, class. My dad was an amateur photographer, so I osmosed a bit from him, but most the technical stuff never took. I bought a new lens after lusting after someone else’s at the Underground Garden, and the sales lady, Pam, asked if I […]

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Categories: animals, Experience, Photography, plants, Tulare County

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

April 18, 2013 by tchistorygal

I’m sure I’m late for this challenge, but you know when you retire, you can hardly tell one day from another, let alone one week from another. At the Kiwanis Hunger Run we assembled at the Woodlake Botanical Gardens, which is a well hidden treasure right on the main street skirting Woodlake. I wanted to go back and take pictures of the gorgeous roses before it got too hot for them to be beautiful any more. Besides that I purchased […]

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Categories: California, Photography, Tulare County, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Marsha Lee, Roses, Woodlake Botanical Gardens, WP Challenge color

Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

April 13, 2013 by tchistorygal

Can you believe that I could get somewhere – anywhere at 6:15 a.m.?Good, that means you know me pretty well. I got there at 6:25 a.m., complete with camera, but my disk had no space AND no pictures. What’s up with that? I learned how to format my disk today because of it. Needless to say, I was a little late to my assigned post, but I got there. It turned out that many people came to help, so I […]

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Categories: Events, Experience, Tulare County, Woodlake Kiwanis

Good bass, catfish , and trout fishing in Bravo Lake

Bravo Lake Is All Filled Up

April 9, 2013 by tchistorygal

Sally Pace and I walked around Bravo Lake for the first time together on February 12. It was so empty. I darkened it to show you how sad it looked, and wrote my name in the sky so you’d know the sky wasn’t really that color. The amount of water is real. Water managers turned on the faucets and filled Bravo Lake over the weekend. Today I picked up trash along side of five middle school students, and their teacher, […]

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Categories: clouds, Experience, mountains, people, Photography, Photoshop, Tulare County • Tags: Bravo Lake, Kiwanis Club of Woodlake, Marsha Lee, photography, real estate, Vince Ingrao, Walk for Hunger, Woodlake Botanical Gardens

A Glimpse of Woodlake Meandering Through Time

April 7, 2013 by tchistorygal

My friend Sally Pace commissioned me to write about the history of Woodlake for the Kiwanis Magazine, maybe 300 words or less. Woodlake, a sleepy town born in 1910 in the foothills of the big trees, became famous for cattle ranching, and oranges. Its history is a collection of tales about hard-working farmers, farm workers and, of course, cowboys. Most of the life in Woodlake takes place in the hills beyond the town, but there is a town that […]

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Categories: animals, architecture, California, Experience, Philosophy, Tulare County, Writing • Tags: Grace Pogue, Marsha Lee, Presbyterian church, ranching, Woodlake California history, writing an oral history, writing history

Dam 50th Anniversary

March 30, 2013 by tchistorygal

What would you do with an unruly river that tumbles 12,000 feet from the Sierra Nevada Mountains starting in the Sequoia National Park? No other North American river, including the Colorado River, drops so far in such a short distance. What would you do if its unruliness built up one the most fertile deltas in the West? What would you do if it emptied into the largest body of fresh water in the lower 48 states west of the […]

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Categories: history-social science, mountains, Tulare County • Tags: floods, Floods of the Kaweah, Kaweah River, Mark, Tilchen, Tulare County

Near the mouth of the Kaweah River, a #5 Rafting River, and very noisy - Kaw Kaw!

A Drive to Sequoia National Park

March 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

I thoroughly prepared myself for a day of work. I was going to work on my quilt. but Mary called, and off we went to the Sequoia National Park. We started at Bravo Lake in Woodlake, admiring the Botanical Gardens. You have to climb to get to the lake as you walk through the gardens to the walking path around the lake. Bravo Lake, fed by the Kaweah River, Indian word, eah, meaning river, filled with the raucous caw, cawing […]

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Categories: About, Experience, museum, restaurants, Travel, Tulare County • Tags: Bravo Lake, Kaweah Lake, Kaweah River, Marsha Lee, Sequoia National Park, Three Rivers, Woodlake Botanical Gardens

Wicked Weekend in Oz for History Gals

March 19, 2013 by tchistorygal

Some people got to family reunions. Some go to class reunions? Other people meet in different ways and click, and then start to do things together in a group. Do you travel with a group of people? Do you plan for months and all look forward for weeks and even months for just a few short days or hours together? Before this group of women came into my life, I never had this experience with more than another couple. I […]

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Categories: California, Events, Photography, restaurants, Travel • Tags: fun with friends, History Gals, Oz, South Coast Plaza, the Great and Powerful, Wicked, Wizard of Oz

Eva Patterson will be speaking in a panel at the CCSS Conference in Burlingame on March 9, 2013

Eva Paterson: Heroine of the Civil Rights Era Who Kept Moving On

March 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

Eva Paterson was only a teenager when she debated Spiro Agnew on national television in 1970. When she became an attorney she fought for Civil Rights for many underserved groups of people. Though she grew up in a violent home, she became a champion for those whose rights were challenged at home or in society. In the late 1970s she successfully sued the Oakland Police Department for not coming to the aide of battered women. “Prior to taking the helm […]

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Categories: CCSS, Experience, history-social science, Organizations, San Francisco • Tags: CCSS 2013 Conference, Equal Justice Society, Eva Patterson, social justice, Social Studies on the March

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Alfred Hitchcock In SF

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San Francisco Walking Tour

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My First Yoga Class

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The Paso Place to Go

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Bellavista

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Wildflower Photography Class

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Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

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Bravo Lake Is All Filled Up

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A Glimpse of Woodlake Meandering Through Time

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