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Archives: 2008 June

The Lodi Street Faire

The Lodi Street Faire

04 May 2008 On a hot early summer’s day back in May I wandered down to Lodi and took a wander through the street faire. An annual event, this, hundreds of booths selling arts and crafts turned the downtown area into an almost unrecognizable mass of color and humanity. These silvery wind chimes hung off [...]

Pioneer baby’s grave

Pioneer baby’s grave

Just north of Shasta state historic park, another historic landmark is a little more lonely. First you have to go down stairs into a wooded area.

Smoky Weaverville

Smoky Weaverville

Yesterday we headed down to Weaverville on an errands run. Where we lived was bad enough, but as we got closer to the city–and the Iron Complex fires–we realized that Weaverville was really thick with smoke. I fished my camera out and started to snap photographs from the back of the bike.

A study in color

A study in color

Purple These pictures were taken for Amy Palko’s “Capturing Rainbows” challenge. Flickr’s okay, but I don’t play there much, so I thought I’d share the pictures here as well as an extended Photo of the Day. All these pictures were taking with an ailing Canon Powershot S70, using the macro setting. I’m really very proud [...]

Thursday Thirteen #31: 13 favorite photos in May

Thursday Thirteen #31: 13 favorite photos in May

Every day on each of four blogs I’ve been posting an image of the day, as well as the occasional article with piccies. Here are my thirteen favorites from May. Which one/s do you like best?