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Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

May 22, 2013 by tchistorygal

Visited by thousands of readers in more than 155 countries around the world, LetsBeWild.com is all about getting people outside – the great outdoors is where it’s at when it comes to having fun & living life to the fullest! Our Wild Weekly Photo Challenge encourages bloggers to head into the wild (or the backyard) and photograph something that they feel fits the weekly theme. Once you’ve posted your blog entry, comment on the Challenge theme that you’re entering with […]

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Categories: Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: Beaches, Bravo Lake, Marsha Lee, photography, Wild Weekly Photo Challenge 31

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

Book Review: Soul’s Child

May 17, 2013 by tchistorygal

Soul’s Child, the 2012 award-winning spell binder by Dianne Gray, unearthed and explored a love/hate relationship between co-dependent father and daughter after the accident in which Aurora Jones’ mother and younger sister died, and left Aurora in a coma for three weeks. The accident also gave Aurora an insatiable and uncontrollable urge to draw unnaturally realistic scenes she had never experienced. Although she hid her drawings, her father, originally Mervin Oswald Jones, discovered their secret meanings, and began to […]

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Categories: Books, Common Core, Education, Fiction • Tags: Amazon, Dianne Gray, Marsha Lee, Souls Child

Norton I, Emperor of the United States…

May 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

Joshua Abraham Norton came from England to the United States, and like thousands of others rushed to California to enlarge his already hefty fortune of $40,000. After amassing up to $250,000 at his peak, Norton eventually lost his fortune and his sanity. Losing his sanity, however, did not affect his ability to make an impact on his community. Good-looking, with a TOUCH of grandiosity, he declared himself Emperor of the United States, fired the President, and abolished Congress through a series […]

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Categories: California, history-social science, San Francisco • Tags: Emperor Norton I, Joshua Abraham Norton, Marsha Lee, San Francisco history

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

Chocolate Lovers Rejoice

May 4, 2013 by tchistorygal

Here is a nice reflection on the sweetness of life. Mary and I had to make difficult choices at Reimer’s Candy Shop in Three Rivers, CA. This is a favorite stop on the way both to and from the Sequoia National Park to see the big trees. Both my husband and I compete to see who can lose the most weight while eating the most chocolate. Right now he is winning. OK he always wins. Here is his advice! What […]

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Categories: food • Tags: chocolate, Marsha Lee, Reimer's Candy Shop, Three Rivers

A Book Review: Wolf Pear

May 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

You all know that I’m a Dianne Gray fan, and I just finished reading her 2010 novel Wolf Pear. The reader has no idea whether or not the two main protagonists, JD Cusack and Esther Crooke will ever meet. Both characters mistreated as children, you hope that the something in the story will turn out well for them. Poor Esther, fat, lonely, and constantly tormented, has worked her way into a very successful business with her best friend, Sandy in spite […]

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Categories: Books • Tags: book review, Dianne Gray, Marsha Lee, Wolf Pear

J.G. Burdette Scares Spammers Silly

April 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

My regular readers know what a hard time I had with spam when I first started. No, not the typical barrage of spam you get from other people – I was spam! I couldn’t crawl out of the Akismet hole I must have inadvertently dug for myself. Well, one of the best serious history writers in Blogland, J. G. Burdette, took a swipe at spammers swarming her site today. You should check it out if you don’t read her regularly. Then […]

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Categories: Blogging, spam • Tags: J. G. Burdette, Marsha Lee, spam

Book Review: The Secret Child by Marti Healy

April 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

Even in 1855 few humans had choose between living in an enchanted forest with fairies or living with humans, between dwelling in a forested utopia or in a nation about to be torn by the most devastating war in the history of the United States, or between becoming immortal or remaining mortal. Cian, a fairy whose Gaelic name meant ancient, dreamed about the coming of a secret child to the hidden community of fairies who inhabited the forest known as […]

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Categories: Books, Experience • Tags: Book Hub, celtic mythology, Christine Louise McNamera, Marsha Lee, Marti Healy, sci-fi, Secret Child

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

Bellavista

April 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

As a native Hoosier, my tendency is to be hospitable. My mother always loved to have company, and it didn’t matter when you came, if she was home, she would get you a glass of iced tea or Pepsi, and you all would sit down and visit. At Grandma’s that visit also included a walk through the yard to see what had bloomed since the day before when you were last there. I guess I haven’t outgrown that upbringing. Even […]

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Categories: About, Family, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: family, hospitality, landscaping, Marsha Lee, yard art

Word a Week Challenge: Worker

April 25, 2013 by tchistorygal

I found this A Word A Week Challenge browsing your websites. Workers, are they professional, blue-collar, amateurs learning a hobby? Are workers those who work outside or inside? Is work physical or mental, or both? Genesis tells us that six days God worked, and on the seventh day God rested. I’m sure his work involved a bit of thought and creativity as well as some pretty heavy lifting – even if He was just filling craters with water and […]

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Categories: agriculture, Challenges, Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: A Word A Week Challenge, Marsha Lee, photography, social studies lesson, workers

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

Wordless Wednesday: Purity

April 17, 2013 by tchistorygal

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Categories: Challenges, Photography, Wordless Wednesday • Tags: Cee Neuner, Marsha Lee, Woodlake Botanical Gardens, Wordless Wednesday

I’ve Been Tagged

April 16, 2013 by tchistorygal

Before I start, I want to speak my condolences to those in Boston, and my prayers are with you. As I was digging into Ute‘s blog today I found out that I’ve been tagged. Thanks Ute! What fun! The idea is to answer eleven questions set by him and then ask more questions to eleven others. Here are her questions, followed by my questions and the folks I’ve nominated to answer them, and write their own questions and pass them […]

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Categories: Awards, Blogging, Experience • Tags: http://utesmile.wordpress.com/, Marsha Lee, Tagged

Travel theme: Benches

April 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today I went with my friend Connie to the Best of the Valley Quilt Show at the McDermont Field House in Lindsay, CA. It was so overwhelming, I decided to use challenges and themes to tell part of the story. I took over 200 pictures, and it will take me over a year to tell you the story, and by then it will be time for another quilt show. I can’t believe how MANY talented quilters there are in this […]

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Categories: animals, art, Challenges, Photography, Quilting, Travel Theme • Tags: animals, benches, Fine Art America, Marsha Lee, quilting

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Book Review: The Secret Child by Marti Healy

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

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