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My First Photography Up for Sale on Fine Art America Website
I saw Enice’s photography on this website http://fineartamerica.com/, so I thought I’d give it a try as well. So far I only have 10 pictures posted, but they are also advertised on my Facebook page....
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John Muir Visits the Tulare County Historical Society During the 2013 Annual...
Yesterday at the Tulare County Historical Society Annual Meeting Frank Helling, a 30-year veteran as John Muir, with his hand carved cane in his Scottish accent told the crowd “Everywhere we step is...
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Using the Creative Cloud by Adobe
As many of you know, the job of designing a brochure somehow dropped on my unartistic shoulders. I created something using the Creative Cloud for our Board Meeting on Saturday, and received immediate...
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fire
As I pushed the publish button the notice came up that this is my 300th post! Thanks everyone for sticking with me for that long!!!! :) This challenge is a bit of a stretch for me. When I was...
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Kiwanians at the Farm Show
Sally Pace gave me free tickets to the Tulare World Ag Expo, so Cindy and I went to check it out Wednesday. I have lived here for almost 28 years, and in all that time never had free tickets, and...
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A Little Foothill High School History
Sally Pace asked me to do a column of Foothill History for the Kiwanis magazine which is published quarterly. Our larger community consists of several small foothill towns ranging from populations of...
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Eva Paterson: Heroine of the Civil Rights Era Who Kept Moving On
Eva Paterson was only a teenager when she debated Spiro Agnew on national television in 1970. When she became an attorney she fought for Civil Rights for many underserved groups of people. Though she...
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National History Day – California – Tulare County a Huge Success
This was my first year in the past twelve years NOT to coordinate Tulare County’s History Day event. The job now falls on my dear friend, Joy Soares, who took my place as the History Consultant at the...
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Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger
Can you believe that I could get somewhere – anywhere at 6:15 a.m.?Good, that means you know me pretty well. I got there at 6:25 a.m., complete with camera, but my disk had no space AND no pictures....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable
I love companionable. People and animals getting along together. Maybe even plants, anything that breathes. Things??? Well, Manny is companionable, but usually… Well there are a few things I can’t...
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Book Review: Through the Redwood Curtain by Robert Burke
At a Woodlake High School Foundation Dinner I attended recently, Bob Burke, the 2011 San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies High School Teacher of the Year, told me he had just published his...
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A Quickie
If you are not a regular reader of mine, this post may seem like a waste of cyberspace. I’ve never taken such a long break from blogging, and I miss you all, but I have a Board meeting tomorrow...
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What Happens at a Social Studies Conference?
Large or small, I like social studies conferences. Teachers starve for social studies professional development because it differs from other subject area conferences. The social studies include four...
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Wordless Wednesday: Woodlake Kiwanis Hunger Run/Walk
Filed under: Challenges, Experience, Family, food, Organizations, parks, people, Photography, Physical Fitness, Tulare County, Weekend Relaxing, Woodlake Kiwanis, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: Bravo Lake,...
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Book Review: Co-Operative Dreams A History of the Kaweah Colony by Jay O’Connell
If you’ve never seen a tree so wide you can drive your truck through it, then you need to come to the Sequoia National Park. The Kaweah River surges down from the Sierra Nevada, through the Big Trees,...
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Travel Theme: Twist: Twisted Fourth of July
Setting up for an all city celebration traps workers into all kinds of twists and turns. Unfurling flags took hours. Some workers didn’t stop until they saw stars! Hope you had a memorable 4th! Tell...
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Oh My, What Have You Done?
Nothing is not the right answer. Blogging is not it either. I wish it were. Do you get roped into things? Do you sometimes feel like you’ve been branded as the girl who says yes to too many things...
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Images of America: Woodlake; Gathering and Organizing Images
My 600th post! Arcadia Publishing has specific requirements for the photos in your Images book. You receive a written guideline and an editor that answers questions promptly. Your success is...
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