Tulare County

Home of the Sequoia National Park

If you live here and have favorite day trips your family enjoys, I invite you to become a guest blogger, or just have me put a link to your page here. Feel free to email me. I never publish your emails.

Actually I am not a blue-blood Tulare County gal, and if you’ve read my blogs, then you know that. However, I love living here, and I choose to stay because of how beautiful and interesting it is.

Fall in the Foothills

What’s Happening …In The Foothills

Photo Challenge: Geometry

Packing Table Grapes

McDermont House, Lindsay, California

Here are some of my favorite shots from different places I’ve been in Tulare County when I have remembered to bring a camera. I hope you enjoy them, too.

: Woodlakers seem to like windmills. Drive out in the country, and you’ll see them all over.

: “Yes, dear, I’ll be home with the worms soon. I’m scouting for them as we speak. Yes, I know I got up late.”

: “Dang, Mama never said there would be so many itchy things out here!”

: Exeter is known for its murals. This is still my fav.

: Hog wallows are inexplicable, but they were everywhere in Tulare County until the Fresno Scraper scraped them flat to make farming easier.

: These young folks learn to make corn husk dolls and candles.

: About 4,000 came to celebrate Junteenth, 2008. Booths were set up to teach about the history, not only of Allensworth, but of other events and people important in African-American history.

: This beautiful section of Hyde Ranch is on Millwood headed towards Badger.

: Junteenth, 2008 celebrating 100 years since the founding of Allensworth, California’s only freedom colony. Native, Mrs. Royal, wrote a book about the unique town.

: Mrs. Royal knows all the big shots. Lonnie Bunch is the director of one of the Smithsonians in Washington, D.C.

: What would a rural farmhouse be without its own water tower?

: Could an orange tree have any prettier place to grow?

: You are near Ducor.

: You’re almost to Porterville north-bound travelers.

: Welcome to Tulare County just leaving Kern County on Hwy 65.

: Farming has been central to Tulare County since its inception in 1852.

: Taken in Fresno’s Kearney Park at the Civil War Time Traveler’s event, this Tulare County Student acts in a student-written reader’s theater for hundreds of students.