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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

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

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

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

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

December 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

A dear friend gave me wool yarn from Australia to make a warm sweater as a departure gift from Colorado Springs. It was summer, and even in Colorado we weren’t thinking about cold weather, but certainly not in Tulare County where the 90 degree temperature recorded at 5:00 a.m. almost persuaded us to find a job elsewhere. I wondered if I would ever need a sweater! Was I ever naive! While the temperatures rarely get below freezing, sweaters are VERY […]

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Categories: California, clouds, Experience, mountains, Photography, Tulare County, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: changing seasons, featured blog, Justice for Raymond, Marsha Lee, Tulare County, WP Photo Challenge

Sunday Post: Natural Resources

November 27, 2012 by tchistorygal

I’ve been hoping for a challenge in which I could post these photos of wind machines. Thanks Jake. Air is probably our most precious and abused natural resource in California Our EPA regulations for air quality are the most stringent in the United States. Yet, for all it’s poor quality from times and in places, air can still be harnessed and used to produce another clean energy – electricity. I read this morning on Pairodox Farm’s blog that my home […]

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Categories: California, California Desert, Featured Blog, mountains, Photography, Resources, Sunday Post, Travel • Tags: California desert, Jakesprinter, Marsha Ingrao, Marsha Lee, Pairadox Farm, San Gorgonio Pass, sunday post, wind farm, wind turbines

There's not much traffic on this street, but PG knows to move over when a truck ambles by.

Magnified Fall in the Foothills

November 22, 2012 by tchistorygal

Happy Thanksgiving!!! It’s always good to be home, even though there are no cultural places to visit nearby, or Diners and Dives restaurants. There’s also little rain, traffic, or noise – although cows make a lot of noise from time to time. Yesterday was such a beautiful day that I took my big lens out for a walk to experiment with it. I took the wide-angle with me, but never got it out. It was too much fun to get […]

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Categories: animals, mountains, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: fall trees, foothills, horses, Mountain, Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, Tulare County California

Mowing the Cotton Field

November 17, 2012 by tchistorygal

When the mountain stopped me and asked me to take a picture of it, I had no idea that right across the street something was begging me even more to take its picture. NO, it took more than a mere field of cotton. You guessed it – farm equipment doing its job. It looks small and innocent enough from this vantage point. Wait till you get closer! You can see why the air gets so dusty in the Central Valley. […]

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Categories: agriculture, clouds, mountains, Photography • Tags: Central Valley, Cotton, fall, Mower, photography

Can you guess what lush crop is growing at the foot of the foothills?

Under the Grapevine

November 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

Grapevine is a place, a town at the southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley. I learned when I first moved here that when you start to cross over Tejon Pass you say, “I’m crossing over the Grapevine.” It is quite a climb in just a few miles to the 4, 000 foot pass. In the summer you are warned to turn off your air-conditioning so that the car doesn’t overheat. That was not a problem on Saturday morning. My problem […]

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Categories: agriculture, California, clouds, mountains, Photography, Travel • Tags: Agriculture, Grapevine, mountains, photography, San Joaquin Valley, Tejon Pass

Fall in the Foothills

November 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

Come white misty fog Dusting the sun-brushed hilltops Polishing the air. You know fall has finally arrived when the fog greets you in the mornings. This picture looks fake, but believe me, the only Photoshop touch on this picture was to give my husband credit for taking it. By evening the flowers were drinking in the last rays of sunshine at about 4:00 in the afternoon. The cats look like they have gained 10 pounds. It’s all fur. “Check out […]

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Categories: animals, California, clouds, Family, mountains, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: fall, flowers, fog, foothills, nature, photography

Watch your step; 133 steps to the lookout point!

The Needle (Not the Haystack)

November 6, 2012 by tchistorygal

Before I start this post I want to thank you all for coming to visit my site, reading all my posts, making wonderfully encouraging and engaging comments, and in general, addicting me to y’all. This is my 200th post. Today, I may go over 9,000 views. Who knew when I started this adventure that even ONE person would want to read my thoughts. I am so grateful. Secondly, I don’t want to get so caught up in my blogging that […]

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Categories: clouds, Hawaii, mountains, parks, people, Photography, Travel • Tags: Hawaii, Iao Valley State Park, Maui, The Needle

Horseback in Hawaii

October 31, 2012 by tchistorygal

Like Lesley Carter, I have my bucket list. I also hold, sometimes unrealistic, admiration for people and because of that I want to try to do the things they do. Enter Carmen again. She’s taking horseback riding lessons, and she’s going to ride with the stars. When will I ever learn, Marsha Lee, you are not Carmen? Carmen can do things you can’t, and it’s ok. But I tried. Start with the end and work backwards. I made it up […]

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Categories: Experience, Hawaii, mountains, Photography, Travel • Tags: Equestrianism, Horse, Vacations and Touring

Sunday Post: Favorite Spot

September 30, 2012 by tchistorygal

Thanks to Amy for leading me to Jake who has the Sunday Post Challenge. I have to think about where my favorite spot is, but I know it faces north. I love to sit at the dining room table and write my blog, answer emails, and, or course, eat. I think I could sit here all day, but that wouldn’t be good for me. When we first made an offer on this house, it was a HUD repo, and we […]

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Categories: mountains, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: Jakesprinter, photography, Sunday Post: Favorite Spot

Relaxing After Work

May 24, 2012 by tchistorygal

A technician told me the other day that he didn’t mind driving home 35 minutes from work. When he had lived 2 minutes from work, he always took a drive out into the country to relax before he went home. His story inspired me to take you on a drive with me as I relax on my way home from work. You are seeing rural California at its best. The temperature is a perfect 80 degrees. The air smells […]

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Categories: California, Experience, mountains, plants, Tulare County • Tags: Agriculture, California, country, Drip irrigation, driving, farming, Irrigation, photography, Plant, relaxing, Sierra Nevada, Tree, Water

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The Paso Place to Go

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Bravo Lake Is All Filled Up

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Day Trip In Search of Snow

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

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Sunday Post: Natural Resources

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Magnified Fall in the Foothills

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Mowing the Cotton Field

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Under the Grapevine

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Fall in the Foothills

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The Needle (Not the Haystack)

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Horseback in Hawaii

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Sunday Post: Favorite Spot

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Relaxing After Work

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