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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

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

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

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

See how blue the sky is. This photo is untouched by Photoshopic hands.

Photoshop Sky – So easy!

March 31, 2013 by tchistorygal

Of course we want reality in our lives. That’s why we put on make-up, and fake nails, hair, clothing that slims, clothing that builds up, paint our fences, and I could go on. So the reality was that the sky was beautiful on Friday. But the truth was that my picture didn’t show it right. Here is your proof – Paul Bunyan standing around in Three Rivers. This picture shows perfectly blue sky with no filter necessary. And right […]

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Categories: clouds, Philosophy, Photography, Photoshop • Tags: Marsha Lee, photography, Photoshop philosophy

Sunday Post: Focused Attention

January 31, 2013 by tchistorygal

It’s been a while since I focussed attention on any photo challenge, and I miss them. Jake says focused attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Attention has also been referred to as the allocation of processing resources. Attention also has variations amongst cultures. Voluntary attention develops in specific cultural and institutional contexts through engagement in cultural activities with more competent community. Photography has forced me to focus my attention of […]

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Categories: Blogging, Photography, Sunday Post • Tags: attentive, challenge, focused, focused attention, Jakesprinter Sunday Post, Marsha Lee, photography

Cats

January 18, 2013 by tchistorygal

I’ve been running you all over Running P Ranch, but I saved the best for last, the cats. You already met Margaret Sanger in the first post. Margaret followed us everywhere. Not a single person commented on the human Margaret’s contribution to history, so I thought you should know what a rich background from which these cats derived their names. Margaret Sanger died before I was old enough to be sexually active, but she changed the world of sex for […]

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Categories: animals, California, Events, Experience, history-social science, pets, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: cats, history, Margaret Sanger, Marsha Lee, photography, Rosa Parks, Running P Ranch, Sacagawea

Does This Help?

January 4, 2013 by tchistorygal

This is the uncropped version. Some of you were close. I never saw it streaked this way. Here are some other versions in different places along my walk yesterday. How gross is that? Drink anyone? Fortunately for me Kalev hates to get wet.

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Categories: Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: Marsha Lee, photography, Tulare County after a rain

Guess What This One Is

January 4, 2013 by tchistorygal

This is a puzzle. I personally think this is harder than my last guessing picture. You all did very well on that one, but now are you up to this challenge? Featured Blog I have accumulated so many blogs on my list, and some of them I never hear from, so last night I was rummaging through my list to find who I want to honor today. Low and behold I found him. GMan’s Galaxy. I’m blown away by George’s […]

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Categories: Blogging, Featured Blog, Photography • Tags: Guess What This Is, http://thebatamonblog.wordpress.com/, legos, Marsha Lee, photography

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

Sunday Post: Christmas

December 23, 2012 by tchistorygal

Jake has done it again – a post to challenge my photographic abilities. I haven’t been too successful with night pictures or inside pictures. So here is my trial. Thanks to Leanne Cole and Russel Ray Photos for the tutorials on Photoshop to spruce these up! Most of our Christmas ornaments stay packed in the boxes each year because one of us doesn’t like them, and because V likes simplicity. I have to agree with him on that when I […]

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Categories: About, Family, Photography, Sunday Post • Tags: Christmas, decorating, Marsha Lee, ornaments, photography, Sunday Post:Christmas

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

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

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

Sunday Post: Peaceful

December 3, 2012 by tchistorygal

I thought about the ocean, but sometimes it is NOT peaceful. I considered farm animals, but they make a LOT of noise. Then, I looked around for something at home where I feel most peaceful. Who should be peacefully resting in my folder, but Mama Kitty? Granted Kalev is NOT peaceful. Every morning she charges out to see Mama Kitty, her body twisting and writhing with excitement. Amazingly Mama Kitty just stands waiting for her morning kiss from Kalev. Scardy could do […]

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Categories: animals, Featured Blog, Photography, Sunday Post, Travel • Tags: animals, cats, dogs, Marsha Ingrao, Marsha Lee, Peaceful, photography, Richard Tulloch, sunday post

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