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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

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

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

Spring Inspires Gardening Chores in California

February 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

My husband, like Manny, hibernates in the winter. As soon as the days get longer and the temperature gets to about 65, V comes back to life and goes into hyperactive work mode. He also has talent to go with the spurts of energy. This weekend the sun called to him, and said, “It’s time to think about planting.” V loves to design landscaped areas, but has never been interested in gardening – UNTIL I retired. Now he wants to […]

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Categories: agriculture, Experience, Family, plants • Tags: gardening, raised vegetable beds, yard chores

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

Walnuts Change Clothes for the Winter

December 8, 2012 by tchistorygal

I hated walnuts until I moved to Tulare County. We couldn’t have been relocated into a better place than when my first husband and I moved here August 1, 1985, a month prior to the beginning of walnut harvesting season. After about 3 months of blistering hot weather, and by that I mean temperatures of 105+ F or 40.55 C, walnuts are ready to come down from their lofty perches. We rented an old adobe house centered between two walnut […]

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Categories: agriculture, California, Experience, Featured Blog, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: Agriculture, Algarve Blog, fall, featured blog, photography, Tulare County, walnuts

The End of Fall

December 6, 2012 by tchistorygal

Tulare County, approximately the size of Connecticut, has two climates. One is mountainous – the Sierra Nevada, home of the Sequoia National Park. The other, home of over 400,000 cows, is a temperate, farming-friendly valley. Four days ago as I drove towards the largest town, Visalia, I passed two grape vineyards, one with yellow leaves, and one with bright red. The sun was just breaking through the clouds. It had rained the day before, and everything sparkled like animated ornaments […]

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Categories: agriculture, California, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: fall, grape leaves, Marsha Ingrao, photography, Tulare County

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

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

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

Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

November 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

Yesterday you voted on possible covers for a Kiwanis magazine published in the foothill communities of Woodlake, Three Rivers, and Exeter,California. Thank you so much for your input. At one time I took a series of fruit tree pictures, and I couldn’t find them. I did find one picture, but I hated the sky. So I tried a Leanne. I tried to made major changes to it. Please tell me whether you think my work is believable, and if it […]

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Categories: agriculture, art, California, clouds, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: brush tool, clone tool, color tool, fruit trees, Kiwanis, lasso tool, peach orchard, Photoshop

What’s Happening …In The Foothills

November 8, 2012 by tchistorygal

I NEED your opinions!!! I am so excited. When I voted on Tuesday I ran into my friends, Sally and Alice who used to work with me when I was teaching. I love voting. As we chatted afterwards, and Sally asked me if I wanted to contribute a spring photograph for the cover of the magazine published by Kiwanis Club. You all know I said YES! So now the problem comes of WHICH photograph of the tri-town area do we […]

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Categories: agriculture, animals, people, Photography, plants, Tulare County • Tags: Central California, Foothill communities, spring, Tulare County, vote for favorite, Woodlake

Document, document, document. We were here.

Ka’anapali Coffee Farms

November 4, 2012 by tchistorygal

Knowing that my husband is a realtor helps explain to you why this excursion is a must every time we go to Maui. We look at houses. No, we are not in the market to buy multi-million dollar houses even in Central California, let alone Hawaii, but once a realtor… The deal is that you build your dream home, but the coffee farm stays. There are several types of coffee here. We hit the jackpot this year. Fooled you – […]

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Categories: agriculture, beach, Experience, Hawaii, Photography, plants • Tags: Central California, Coffee, coffee plantation, Hawaii, Maui, photography, real estste

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: One Single Flower

October 29, 2012 by tchistorygal

I saw this challenge on Simply Captured and I liked her floral pictures so well, I thought I would submit a few pictures as well. You might want to also. Create a Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge post Then add a link to your blog in my comment box. To make it easy for others to check out your photos and post, title your blog post “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” tag. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly reminders. I’ve […]

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Categories: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Photography, plants • Tags: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Central California, Flower, Photograph, Roses

Remember the Abizia?

September 7, 2012 by tchistorygal

Trees for Sale They’re still just as lovely as they were this spring.Mama Kitty and I are still pulling out about 10-20 little sprouts per day.I’ll sell them cheap. $.02 apiece. Ok that’s just what my opinion is worth. Actually the trees are worthless. I wouldn’t advise you to order any!! But that’s just MY opinion!

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Categories: Experience, Photography, plants • Tags: abizia, landscaping, trees

Beautiful Berkeley Bouquet

August 11, 2012 by tchistorygal

The grass is always greener and the flowers are always more colorful on the other side (of the mountain). You think that’s just a whiny statement from a beach girl wannabe, but now you can judge for yourself. Here is the bouquet right from our friend’s yard. Here’s just one of the flowers. I loved the shadows. I was experimenting using my 70-300 lens, which gives me fits. I was also trying to take spider webs. If I put […]

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Categories: Experience, Photography, plants • Tags: photography, Plants, spider webs.

Cherry tree, bee and me - I'm the invisible one behind the camera.

One Lovely Blog Award

June 19, 2012 by tchistorygal

I feel like I have arrived! Rlcarson , http://randpphotoalbums.wordpress.com/, just nominated my blog for the Lovely Blog Award! Thanks so much! Renee and Pallas have some of the most amazing cloud and sunset pictures ever. Yesterday I had the hardest time writing, and had more readers than any day except the first, and I think most of those readers were me editing. I enjoy R’s blog, and especially his last comment when he nominated me (hehe!) It’s amazing to me […]

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Wildflower Photography Class

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A Valleycation Date in Kingsburg and Fresno California

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Spring Inspires Gardening Chores in California

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More Running P

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History Girls Rule San Diego Part 1

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Walnuts Change Clothes for the Winter

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The End of Fall

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Magnified Fall in the Foothills

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Living Elegantly in Palm Desert

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Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

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What’s Happening …In The Foothills

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Ka’anapali Coffee Farms

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: One Single Flower

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Remember the Abizia?

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Beautiful Berkeley Bouquet

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One Lovely Blog Award

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