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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

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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

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Here it comes, that ole cotton picker.

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

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Fog in the foothills

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

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I am married, and retired August 31, 2012 as a county office History-Social Science Instructional Consultant , Past-President, San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies, President-Elect California Council for the Social Studies, and Membership Co-Chair- National Council for the Social Studies. I am also active in the Tulare County Historical Society, and Woodlake Kiwanis.

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