Extra birthday wishes to Sylvia, Pam, (oh no – is yours the first or the second of Sept.?) and Ron T.! Happy birthday, friends! Today’s post is for Marilyn, AKA The Captain. Just some photos of new flowers, and a get-well wish along with a birthday greeting. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARILYN! GET WELL SO WE CAN […]
Hiking Mineral King – Eagle Lake, part 2
The rock section of the Eagle Lake Trail is very challenging if you were just expecting a little walk in the woods. Sometimes you have to wiggle your feet between some boulders, sometimes you have to just guess where the trail might be, sometimes you walk on a slab of granite, and none of it […]
Mineral King Wildflowers for Carol
Happy Birthday, Carol! These flowers are for you today.
Hiking Mineral King – Farewell Gap
Two days after Trail Guy went to Farewell Gap via a loop, we returned together with our new best hiking buddy Jessica. The point of the hike was to see Sky Pilot, an elusive high-elevation flower that we’ve never seen anywhere except Farewell Gap (not that we go anywhere outside of Mineral King. . .) […]
Thoughts After a 40th Class Reunion
My 40th class reunion from Redwood High School in Visalia just happened. I have a list of thoughts pertaining to the event. Spouses from other schools don’t belong – they are bored, and people generally don’t come to reunions to see who other people married. I only saw one person scrolling through his phone (a bored […]
Oh Say. . .
. . .Can you see that we live in a fabulous country?
Random Thoughts
Today’s post is a list of random thoughts, unrelated to art, things that one of my tens of readers might be interested in. Crocs shrink if you leave them in the sun. Mine are too short to wear now. Isn’t that weird? Rubber shoes shrink in the sun! (maybe it is related to #2. . […]
Jennifer
Jennifer Logan was a friend of mine for about 30 years. We met in Lemon Cove at the Womans Club (yes, that is the correct spelling); I was taken with her English accent and for some reason, she liked me. She called me “Janner” and referred to herself as “Jennifa”, which tickled my fancy. When […]
Opening Mineral King 2017
Mineral King officially opened on Wednesday, May 24. This is remarkable, considering it was a huge winter. Most of the reason it is open is because Trail Guy borrowed a backhoe and spent 120 hours of volunteer work to fight through the avalanches. This made it possible for the Park’s road guy to do the […]
Spring Walk in Three Rivers
About a mile from my home in Three Rivers there is an extensive area of BLM land. There are several ways to get there, all of them a little ambiguous, but the place is still well-used and loved by mountain bikers, casual walkers, hard-core walkers, photographers, and horse-back riders. The place is called “BLM”, “Salt […]