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Book Review: The Worst Hard Time…

June 12, 2013 by tchistorygal

Before I start my book review, which I promised you last week, I want to thank you for responding to my poll yesterday. I will be establishing a posting schedule in a few days based on your advice. Attention English teachers!!! The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan reads almost like fiction. History and science teachers join forces by using this book as primary source background information to introduce or […]

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Categories: Books, Common Core, Education, history-social science, people, Real Estate • Tags: book review, cedar posts, Dust Bowl, Environment, history and science, Marsha Lee, shocking facts, The Worst Time, timothy egan, wooden shacks, worst natural disaster

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

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

Everyone out of the water! Give her room! She is dangerous.

Monk Seal at Poipu Beach

June 7, 2013 by tchistorygal

We spent only a week in Kauai, HI, but I have way more than a week’s worth of posts – even though they are not written yet. I’ll post this one, the I’ll take a break from HI so I don’t bore you too much. This was our first visit to the local beach. We didn’t have a sandy beach outside our resort, and the one within walking distance wasn’t guarded. So each day we drove five minutes to Poipu […]

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Categories: About, animals, beach, Experience, Hawaii, Photography, Travel • Tags: HI, Kauai, Marsha Lee, monk seal, Poipu Beach

Sunday Post: Perspective: Best Luau Ever

June 5, 2013 by tchistorygal

Thank you Jake for this challenge to help me share my perspective of our luau experiences. To learn how to enter your own posts about perspectives, visit Jake’s Sunday Post. From my perspective the luau we attended in Kauai on Friday, May 30, 2013 was the best we ever attended. The concierge at our Diamond Resort, The Point at Poipu, influenced our perspective when he told us LUAU KALAMAKU was the best luau we ever attended. We felt like expert luau […]

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Categories: Challenges, Experience, food, Hawaii, people, Photography, Sunday Post • Tags: entertainment, Hawaii, HI, Kauai, luau, Luau Kalamaku, Sunday Post: Perspective

Aunt Cindy and Vince go on ahead while Manny explores the lay of the land.

Manny Goes to Grove Cafe in Kauai, HI

June 4, 2013 by tchistorygal

We, V, C, M and I, just got back from a wonderful vacation in Kauai, HI. Manny’s favorite place in all of Kauai was a famous restaurant in the little town of Waimea called The Grove Cafe. Yelp gave The Gove Cafe three star rating, and told us how to get there, but Manny gave it 6 stars and a few planets. You know when you see tour busses, that it must be a good place to eat. Manny loved The […]

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Categories: Experience, Family, food, Hawaii, parks, Photography, restaurants • Tags: banyan tree, HI, Kauai, restaurant, The Grove Cafe, Waimea, Waimea Driftwood Beach, Yelp

Blogging friend Darla Welchel posted this picture on FB

Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

June 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

Extreme bad times give birth to silver linings. Disasters and tragedy can bring out the best in people. Right now we think of those in Oklahoma who are suffering with the ugly effects of tornadoes. They need to see beyond their present circumstances and know that there will be a silver lining, or they might give up hope. It makes those of us who are not touched by those tragedies to give gratefully to help those in need. People in […]

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Categories: Daily Prompt, Events, Experience, WP Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing • Tags: Dust Bowl, harelip, Holocaust, Marsha Lee, Oklahoma City Bomber, Oklahoma tornadoes, silver linings, WP Writing Prompt

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

Looking down - the shadow tells my angle, or is it the angle tells the time of day?

A Word A Week Challenge: Angle

May 28, 2013 by tchistorygal

I was inspired by a new blogger friend, Bambang (Bams) Triwoko, to create a post for this Word a Week Challenge: Angle. I don’t know whether I can put a new angle on it, but I will come at it from my perspective. Angle makes all the difference in photography. When I’m just looking at something, I don’t necessarily walk around checking all the angles like I do now when I want to take a photograph. Last week my […]

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Categories: animals, Blogging, Challenges, Photography • Tags: bird forum, birds, blue jay, Marsha Lee, photography, wildlife, Word a Week Challenge: angle

Granted Manny is not blurry, but he's sort of not the focal point.

Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background

May 25, 2013 by tchistorygal

Michael Pick would like me to do something different in the background – me, not the scenery. No wonder they call it a challenge. People/objects we know and love, or who are interesting are usually the focus of our thoughts and pictures. Now Michael I’m not happy about this. I’m having to think – AGAIN, and I just did that yesterday. I mean really, I do have some excellent background pictures with Manny in the foreground and San Diego Bay […]

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Categories: Blogging, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

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

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

May 20, 2013 by tchistorygal

Have you ever wanted to escape from your past? From the faults and character qualities of your family that you didn’t like or admire? We always sort of disowned my dad’s mom. I never even think of her very often, but when I saw this picture from Sethsnap, I escaped back to my childhood, and remembered my Grandma Tressie Lee. Seth invited us to write something about the picture, so I escaped into the picture for about a half an hour […]

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Categories: About, Experience, Family, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Billy Graham, Escape, life in the 1950s, Marsha Lee, Oral Roberts, paint by number, WP Photo Challenge

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

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

standing from the Master Gardener booth looking over the field

Good Morning World

April 28, 2013 by tchistorygal

I do love blogging, and I try to post consistently so that my blogging friends will know I’m alive and keep coming to see me. I recently read a recommended book, Getting Started with Twitter for Dummies, and updated my Twitter account. There I learned blogging tips from Daniel Sharkov, a 19-year-old. So today, because of his recommendation, I just added a new page, New Here, to help explain why I’m here on this blogging planet. Check it out and tell […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Photography, plants • Tags: Marsha Lee, Master Gardeners, photography, Porterville Iris Festival, Sally Pace

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Monk Seal at Poipu Beach

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Manny Goes to Grove Cafe in Kauai, HI

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Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

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Bravo Lake

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Speaking of Bird Eggs

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A Word A Week Challenge: Angle

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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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