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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

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

This quilt is up on the wall, but the squirrel is up, too.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

April 21, 2013 by tchistorygal

I enjoy the WordPress challenges. This one, UP, was particularly fun. Up is ubiquitous. As I looked up my photos, “up” took on one meaning after another. Some of my up connections may be stretching it a bit, but I’ve heard them all used – or used them myself. Yesterday I wanted to finish up showing my favorite quilt show pictures using different challenges, but then I wondered…. Are you fed up with quilts, or are you still upbeat about […]

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Categories: Challenges, Experience, history-social science, Photography, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Allensworth, Colonial Williamsburg, Marsha Lee, photography, UP, WP Photo Challenge

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

Afternoon Stroll Best of Show at the 2013Best of Valley Quilt Show

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

April 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

I started quilting many years ago, then took about a 35 year break. Over the years the quilting hobby changed drastically. This year I noticed that quilters incorporate much more bling and texture into their quilts than I’ve ever noticed before. Bling might come in the form of fancy machine embroidering with multi-colored or metallic threads or objects sewn onto the quilt. Quilters also bling their quilts in the same way they glitz clothing – with beads, and shiny things. Clothing […]

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Categories: Experience, Photography, Quilting, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Best of Valley Quilt Show, change, Lindsay California, McDermont Field, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

December 30, 2012 by tchistorygal

January – Thirty years ago student teachers HAD to be a member of a professional organization as part of their graduation requirements. Although it is no longer mandatory, social studies teachers who join California Council for the Social Studies become the leaders in their field as they meet colleagues from across the state, and make friendships that last a lifetime. In January the CCSS Executive Board asked to serve as the First Vice-President, replacing a member who had moved to Colorado. […]

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Categories: beach, Blogging, California, California Desert, CCSS, Education, Experience, history-social science, Photography, Retirement, SJVCSS, TCHS, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Marsha Lee, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

December 27, 2012 by tchistorygal

I enjoy photo challenges because they always make me think. I don’t usually think about themes. I was surprised this morning when I was reading Russel Ray’s site that anyone could come up with enough pictures of chimneys, let alone the idea that the chimneys were Santa-unfriendly chimneys, and therefore the cause of undelivered gifts in Southern California. I am surprised at the creative thinking of others. Being basically self-centered my first thought was, when have I ever been surprised. […]

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Categories: Blogging, Featured Blog, people, Photography, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Dianne Gray, featured blog, Lantern Post, photography, Robin Coyle, Russel Ray, Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

flower with delicate pink tinged petals.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

December 17, 2012 by tchistorygal

Delicate suggests many diverse meanings. Curiously, now and again what seems delicate may actually be quite strong, and conversely, when something appears heavy, mechanical, sturdy or awkward may have delicate functions, characteristics, or aspects. Here are some of my choices for the many meanings of delicate. How many of them might at the same time be surprisingly durable, hardy, vigorous or unyielding? 1. Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way, and 2. Very subtle in difference or distinction. With its […]

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Categories: Blogging, Featured Blog, Photography, Resources, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: featured blog, Marsha Lee, photography, Sydney Fong, Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

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

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

December 1, 2012 by tchistorygal

As I reflect on my blogging experiment this first day of December, I realize that it has gone from experiment to addictive hobby. I am thankful to all of you for taking the time to visit my streaming thoughts started in April, 2012. While not breaking any records, this blog has attracted over 11,000 views, and 2,000 comments. I was awfully lonely the first couple of months, but on November 29th the site reached a high of 196 views. THANK […]

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Categories: Blogging, California, history-social science, parks, Tulare County, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: blogging, history, Marsha Ingrao, Mooney Grove Park, Reflections, Tulare County, WP Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

November 24, 2012 by tchistorygal

This week’s photo challenge by WordPress, Thankful , conjures up pictures of food, family, friends, and material objects. Beyond our immediate circle of influence and interaction, our country, and the peace, liberty, and freedom it offers comprise some of the more esoteric gifts that make us thankful. Our lives are improved by people that serve us and do things that we can’t do for ourselves, so we are thankful for: business people, teachers, doctors, our service men and women, inventors, […]

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Categories: Experience, people, Photography, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, holiday, Marsha Ingrao, Marsha Lee, photography, Thanksgiving, Weekly Photo Challenge Thankful, WordPress

Spiky green vegetable. Can you guess what it is?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

November 20, 2012 by tchistorygal

We found this at the Pike’s Street Market in Seattle, which is marvelous, by the way. I had never seen one, so I wondered if some of you green connoisseurs might recognize this interesting vegetable. Here’s the recipe, but somehow I missed the name in the excitement of filling the screen with little Christmas Tree vegetables. So guess away. P.S. I’m not the only one who likes to photograph these exotic veggies. Click on the link and you will learn what […]

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Categories: agriculture, Travel, Washington State, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Christmas Tree, Horticulture, Pike's Street Market, Seattle, Travel, Vegetable

Photo Challenge: Geometry

November 5, 2012 by tchistorygal

Do you see my water mark, Leanne? Just call me a copy cat. I love the way it came out. I was impressed not only with the deep troughs, but lines that I assume the tires made. tires. When I was an elementary student, I remember learning how to draw perspective, and this is a perfect example of this. Share your interpretation of geometry by posting a picture for the The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry. Be sure to add postaday to […]

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Categories: Photography, Tulare County, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, Geometry, postaday

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

October 28, 2012 by tchistorygal

This post was inspired by a prompt from WP Daily Post: Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign. In this case I chose to focus on the word foreign meaning outside the United States where I grew up, and have lived my entire life. Almost anything that is out of our comfort zone could be classified as foreign, and this trip was as foreign as I have ever felt in my life. I hope you enjoy my long past memory of Paris, France where […]

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Categories: museum, Photography, restaurants, Travel, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: France, Holocaust, Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, United States, WP Weekly Photo challenge foreign

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