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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

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

I'd be he's going to be a womanizer, too! No bull!

Happy Cows of California? That’s a Bunch of Bulls

February 27, 2013 by tchistorygal

I took my friend Jean home after our walk, and fortunately had my camera along. Fields of grazing land in the foothills of Tulare County is several thousand acres. The bulls live the life of Riley. Cows, that’s another story. Dairies pack those poor milky females into a few hundred acres with no grass – mud/dirt only. Cows have to watch what they eat so the milk tastes right – so no tempting grass Does that sound familiar women? Bulls, […]

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Categories: agriculture, animals, California, Experience, Tulare County • Tags: foothill ranching, raising bulls in Tulare County

Terry Ommen, Tulare County Historical Society, conducts a tour of Tulare County. This stop, near the original site of the Election Tree.

A Little Foothill High School History

February 23, 2013 by tchistorygal

Sally Pace asked me to do a column of Foothill History for the Kiwanis magazine which is published quarterly. Our larger community consists of several small foothill towns ranging from populations of about 3,000-8,000. From north to south the communities are: Woodlake, Lemon Cove, Three Rivers, the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and Exeter. Then a little farther south, still in the foothills, but not considered in our neighborhood are: Lindsay, Porterville (about 45,000 pop.), and Springville (very […]

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Categories: About, Education, history-social science, TCHS, Tulare County • Tags: CA, foothill community, Frank Ainley, history, Marsha Lee, Running P Ranch, Sally Pace, Woodlake, Woodlake High School

Valley Oak stands guard over grassy field where happy cows live.

Ubiquitous Valley Oak

February 7, 2013 by tchistorygal

Every valley should have a stately valley oak watching over its fields by day – and night. In 1852 when Tulare County became a county of California, this oak tree might have been just a sprout. More likely, though, is that it is no more than 80-100 years old. Valley Oaks are common in our area. We have schools with that name, baseball teams have carried the name proudly, as have these lovely trees. My iphotos ticker thingy at […]

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Categories: Books, California, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: Central California, Marsha Lee, Southern San Joaquin Valley, Valley Oak

John Muir Visits the Tulare County Historical Society During the 2013 Annual Meeting

January 28, 2013 by tchistorygal

Yesterday at the Tulare County Historical Society Annual Meeting Frank Helling, a 30-year veteran as John Muir, with his hand carved cane in his Scottish accent told the crowd “Everywhere we step is holy land.” Of course he never hiked around the world, he “san-tared” (sauntered) about because hiking is too much like work. At one point Muir had to find employment. Although he wasn’t a shepherd, he was hired to keep tabs on Shepherd Billy, a lazy bloke. […]

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Categories: Events, history-social science, museum, TCHS, Tulare County • Tags: Exeter Museum, Frank Helling, John Muir, Marsha Lee, TCHS, Tulare County Historical Society Annual Meeting

Cats

January 18, 2013 by tchistorygal

I’ve been running you all over Running P Ranch, but I saved the best for last, the cats. You already met Margaret Sanger in the first post. Margaret followed us everywhere. Not a single person commented on the human Margaret’s contribution to history, so I thought you should know what a rich background from which these cats derived their names. Margaret Sanger died before I was old enough to be sexually active, but she changed the world of sex for […]

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Categories: animals, California, Events, Experience, history-social science, pets, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: cats, history, Margaret Sanger, Marsha Lee, photography, Rosa Parks, Running P Ranch, Sacagawea

Should I Celebrate Now, Or Wait Until 20,000?

January 17, 2013 by tchistorygal

Ah forget it, I’ll celebrate now. I went over 18,000 views today!!! Would you celebrate with me? Can’t you see I’m in kind of a bind? Yes, I see that. I’ll call for some help. HELP!!! HELP!! Can’t you see, I’m tired? Wait till you get to 20,000. You just toot your own horn too often anyway! Go away! Sure, sure. Bye. Zzzzzz Uh sure, I’ll stop by. What time are you celebrating? Soon as I send out the post! […]

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Categories: animals, Blogging, pets, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: blogging, dogs, funny, humor, Marsha Lee, statistics

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 […]

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

Does This Help?

January 4, 2013 by tchistorygal

This is the uncropped version. Some of you were close. I never saw it streaked this way. Here are some other versions in different places along my walk yesterday. How gross is that? Drink anyone? Fortunately for me Kalev hates to get wet.

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Categories: Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: Marsha Lee, photography, Tulare County after a rain

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Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

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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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A Drive to Sequoia National Park

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Happy Cows of California? That’s a Bunch of Bulls

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Ubiquitous Valley Oak

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