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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

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

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

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 […]

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

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

Mr. Parks Kitty Follows Us Home

March 6, 2013 by tchistorygal

Yesterday morning my friend Sally and I walked as usual. When we rounded the corner we heard insistent mewing coming from a nearby tree. We ignored it, and walked to the end of the road and back, about a mile. When we got back to the tree, we heard it again. We stopped and discovered a scared kitty in the tree, but he was way too high for the two of us to reach him. So we left him wailing […]

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Categories: animals, pets • Tags: cats, kittens, kitties, Mr. Parks Kitty, Running P Ranch, Scardy Kitty

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

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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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 […]

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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

Happy Ohio Star

January 11, 2013 by tchistorygal

A few months into retirement, my goals are slowly coming to fruition. I started quilting with Carmen, my friend who retired last year, and wanted to bring My Ohio Star Quilt to completion. That proved to be easier said than done. I proudly took my ready to go quilt to Barbara Graham, my wonderful quilter. It was to be ready in a week. In a little over a week, she called me telling me that there was a LITTLE problem, […]

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Categories: animals, Bears, Photography, Quilting • Tags: featured blog, Manny, Marsha Lee, Ohio Star, quilting, Sir, stuffed animals, summer quilt, tedy bears, the Briny Lass

Miles Dean, age 57 riding across America

Book Review: A Black Cowboy’s Ride Across America

December 23, 2012 by tchistorygal

It’s not every day that a good book about both geography and history comes along, but Lisa Winkler’s non-fiction epic, A Black Cowboy’s Ride Across America, guides the reader from New Jersey to California. Each chapter portrays the real-life adventure of an African-American teacher, Miles Dean, who rides horseback across the United States beginning September 22, 2007. The mini-biography of Dean spans not only the country, but the centuries of African-American history in various places along the way. There is not […]

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Categories: animals, Books, Common Core, Experience, history-social science, Travel • Tags: A Black Cowboy's Ride Across America, book review, geography, history, Lisa Winkler, Marsha Lee, Travel, United States

Day Trip In Search of Snow

December 18, 2012 by tchistorygal

Thank you Ivon for adding star number 5 to my blog of 2012 award. One more to go, and I’ve got them all. Thanks to all of you who have helped me accumulate 13,500 views on my site. We got up Sunday morning to absolutely sparkly blue skies, and cool temperatures. It was a perfect day for a trip to the mountains. I wanted to see snow up close and personal. In the summer here the weather changes very little, […]

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Categories: animals, California, Experience, Family, Featured Blog, mountains, parks, pets, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: animals, Kaweah Lake, Marsha Lee, Pets, photography, puppies, Rumpy Dog, Sequoia National Park, Terminus Dam, Tulare County

You’re Invited to Renee’s Online Birthday Party

December 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

Featured Blog Who’s Renee? I started following Renee and her mom’s blog 6 month’s and 2 weeks ago, making her the 8th blog I followed. I followed her because she gave me one of my first awards before I even knew what an award was. Little did I know that this expert blogger was a mere 16 years old. Over the months I have gotten to know Renee a bit better, and found out that her birthday is on […]

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Categories: animals, communication, Family, Featured Blog, Photography • Tags: blogging party, Christmas birthday, fun, Marsha Lee, R and P Photography, Renee, The Odd One Out

Sunday Post: Peaceful

December 3, 2012 by tchistorygal

I thought about the ocean, but sometimes it is NOT peaceful. I considered farm animals, but they make a LOT of noise. Then, I looked around for something at home where I feel most peaceful. Who should be peacefully resting in my folder, but Mama Kitty? Granted Kalev is NOT peaceful. Every morning she charges out to see Mama Kitty, her body twisting and writhing with excitement. Amazingly Mama Kitty just stands waiting for her morning kiss from Kalev. Scardy could do […]

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Categories: animals, Featured Blog, Photography, Sunday Post, Travel • Tags: animals, cats, dogs, Marsha Ingrao, Marsha Lee, Peaceful, photography, Richard Tulloch, sunday post

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Speaking of Bird Eggs

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A Word A Week Challenge: Angle

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Wildflower Photography Class

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Travel theme: Benches

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A Glimpse of Woodlake Meandering Through Time

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Mr. Parks Kitty Follows Us Home

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

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Piggles Again

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

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More Running P

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Happy Ohio Star

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Day Trip In Search of Snow

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You’re Invited to Renee’s Online Birthday Party

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