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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

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

A Valleycation Date in Kingsburg and Fresno California

April 10, 2013 by tchistorygal

Vince and I scheduled today as a valleycation date. I love that word. My friend, Mary, coined it. It is like a stacation – a vacation where you stay at home and enjoy what you have at home. A valleycation is when you visit locations in the San Joaquin Valley (where we live) that you have always wanted to see, but never had the time-or took the time to visit like a tourist would. We left home about 11:00 and […]

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Categories: agriculture, architecture, Experience, food, Photography, plants • Tags: Baldassare Forestiere, Fresno California, Kingsburg California, Marsha Lee, stay at home vacation, Underground 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

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

History Girls Rule San Diego Part 1

January 7, 2013 by tchistorygal

Maybe rule is not quite the right word. Roam might be better. Manny decided to go along. He had never been to San Diego. We were both ready to get out of the Tule Fog. By the time we got on the way up over the Grapevine, the fog was almost all gone, and blue skies prevailed. The weather in San Diego amazed me – no rain. It rains EVERY time I go there. Ok it rained today when we […]

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Categories: architecture, art, California, Experience, hotel, parks, people, Photography, plants • Tags: Balboa Park, History Girls, Manny, San Diego

Sightseeing in Solvang, CA

November 29, 2012 by tchistorygal

Although Danes from the midwest established Solvang, meaning sunny fields, in 1911, it did not incorporate until 1985. I visited it for the first time ten years later as one of my first dates with my husband, V. In the summer it is just far enough inland that the quaint town suffocates its visitors at temperatures that reach into the 100s. On a sunny November day, like we had last week, it was perfect.I yelped for a place to eat, […]

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Categories: animals, architecture, Blogging, California, Education, Featured Blog, history-social science, Photography, plants, Travel • Tags: CA, Danish town, featured blog, JG Burdette, Marsha Lee, Nodding Place Quilting, photography, Solvang, Solvang Brewing Company, Travel

The Space Needle still towers over Seattle skyscrapers to reign king.

Sunday Post: Architecture

November 23, 2012 by tchistorygal

If you haven’t been to http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/sunday-post-architecture/#comments , and you like photography, and you need ideas for a short posts, Jake is your guy. I love this because even as amateur photographers everyone usually has tons of pictures that sit unseen by anyone but a file folder. This is a reason to open up those dusty folders, and pick out our best work. Seattle came to its own during the 1962 Worlds Fair, and even today, 50 years later, the Space […]

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Categories: architecture, Photography, restaurants, Sunday Post, Washington State • Tags: aliens, Jakesprinter, Marsha Ingrao, Marsha Lee, photography, Seattle, Space Needle, Sunday Post: Architecture

Living Elegantly in Palm Desert

November 20, 2012 by tchistorygal

The contrast between where I was this past week-end and where I was the week-end before reassured me about the flexibility of human-kind. From Friday through Monday (It didn’t rain on Thursday.) I listened to traffic swish through soggy downtown Seattle streets 15 stories below my hotel room, several sirens wailing in concert, and stared out into the drippy gray sky at the construction site so much taller than my room, and the Space Needle off in the distance a […]

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Categories: architecture, California Desert, Photography, plants, Travel

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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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A Valleycation Date in Kingsburg and Fresno California

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A Glimpse of Woodlake Meandering Through Time

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More Running P

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History Girls Rule San Diego Part 1

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Sunday Post: Architecture

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Living Elegantly in Palm Desert

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