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Think there are any more tomatoes in there?

Weekend Relaxing #2 Gardening

June 16, 2013 by tchistorygal

I have decided that picking most fruits and vegetables is best done by children who love to play games. I think that fruits and vegetables get their jollies by playing hide-and-go-seek with humans. You know they are ripe. There are a few tantalizing veggies peeking out behind their leafy clothing. Green beens are the worst. I went out yesterday. I picked all the beans I saw that were ripe. I got quite a few, but to look at the plants, […]

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Categories: agriculture, Family, plants, Tulare County, Weekend Relaxing • Tags: bean seeds, fruits and vegetables, gardening, green beens, Marsha Lee, relaxing

Blogging Schedule

June 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

I want to thank you for responding to my last poll. Y’all blew me away with an astounding 98 responses. That’s up from ZERO on my first poll. Your opinons about the schedule of topics on my blog are as follows: Topics % of Responses Preparing for retirement & living the life 11% Blogging advice and bloopers 10% Book reviews 10% Local adventures and photographic sprees 10% My travels with various folks 9% Photography advice – what I’m learning from my […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Books, California, Challenges, Experience • Tags: blogging, Marsha Lee, scheduling blog posts

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 […]

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

Travel Theme: Costumes

June 8, 2013 by tchistorygal

Am I too late to post a quick post about costumes? Alisa’s travel theme for last week fits a good many pictures I have. In my collection I have pictures of costumes with and without people. To see the ones without costumes I have two posts, one on WP and one on Hubpages.com written about my wonderful tour of Evengeline’s Costume Mansion in Sacramento. Real people (or animals) wear costumes, so this post will focus on living models wearing costumes. I’ll start […]

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Categories: Challenges, Entertainment, Experience, Hawaii, Photography, Sacramento, Travel, Travel Theme • Tags: costumes Alisa's travel theme, Evangeline's Costume Mansion, luau, Marsha Lee

Bravo Lake

May 31, 2013 by tchistorygal

I have to admit that I’m mad about Bravo Lake. It takes up about 1/4 of the area labeled on a map as Woodlake, and you can’t stand on a street anywhere in town and see it! It started out with great promise, “Bravo! Bravo!” sounds like an excited cheer. Something like, “Yeah, here’s a big beautiful lake. Let’s have a picnic. Bravo, sport!” That is not what bravo meant in the case of Bravo Lake, however. In the […]

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Categories: California, clouds, Experience, parks, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: Bravo Lake, irish potato famine, kaweah delta, Marsha Lee, tom fowler, Tulare County

Speaking of Bird Eggs

May 30, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today I am my own guest bloggers. I got the idea from Cathy, better known as ShareChair, who reposted some of her earliest posts. I posted this one year ago, one of my first posts. Since very few people have ever seen it I thought it was appropriate to republish it to show you another variety of bird we have in Tulare County. We can’t believe that they are not extinct, but the sites I found on Google insist that they […]

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Categories: animals, California, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: birds, Marsha Lee, photography, Tulare County, wildlife

Branding

May 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

In my neck of the woods, cattle get branded, but I’ve been DOING Twitter, and reading about branding. Apparently, if I want to my blog to take off and really go places I need to be branded. My blog is doing relatively well, nothing viral, but then until a few days ago I was not branded. Judging from the lack of number of visitors and likes on my Facebook page, branding must be an essential step I’m missing. So, here […]

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Categories: Blogging, Philosophy, social media, Tulare County, Writing • Tags: blogging skills, branding, Click and Clack, Erma Bombeck, Garrison Keillor, Leanne Cole, Lily Tomlin, Maggie Cochere, Paul Harvy, Ralph

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

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

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Blogging Schedule

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Bravo Lake

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Speaking of Bird Eggs

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Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

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Alfred Hitchcock In SF

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San Francisco Walking Tour

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WordPress Photo Challenge: Pattern

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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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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

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Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

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