Tag: sonoma county california
member name: Jean, just the teensiest bit odd, F.
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June 07, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
I simply can't BELIEVE these people! (and I use the term "people" very, VERY loosely!) Here's the article from today's issue of my hometown newspaper "The Press Democrat" . . .
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October 30, 2008 05:43 PM EDT --
A reporter named Marie Butler with Sonoma West Publishers (that publishes three different, local, smalltown newspapers) who writes an annual "Halloween" feature called "Wine & Spirits . . .
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November 02, 2008 11:26 PM EST --
So, I will simply post the photos I took of it here:
In this next shot, I zoomed in on that cloud formation in the center of the above photo at the horizon line. . . .
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March 07, 2009 02:50 PM EST --
In 1859 near Lancaster, Massachusetts, a 10 year-old boy sat on a hill overlooking the railroad tracks as a locomotive pulling several boxcars went by...
The young, intelligent and precocious lad had . . .
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July 18, 2008 06:43 PM EDT --
Since an encounter with my deceased paternal grandmother at a very young age, I have "spoken with dead people"...
As with most people with psychic gifts, however, I have little control over . . .
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November 03, 2008 03:12 PM EST --
Here are some more that I didn't publish with that article... I was going to publish them in an "album" but decided a post shows them off better... ;o)
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May 14, 2008 04:39 PM EDT --
Yes... Not 20 minutes ago and, yes, barely 5 1/2 feet from my FRONT DOOR:
THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a WESTERN RATTLESNAKE!!!
I counted SIX RATTLES on his tail -- making . . .
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August 01, 2008 12:09 AM EDT --
August Leaves
Russet phantoms --
parched and withered --
spell-summoned
by furnace-drafts
from Autumn's relentless Forge --
decry the Quickening... . . .
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August 17, 2008 12:27 AM EDT --
Okay... No rhetoric... No words... Let the photos speak for themselves...
As viewed from "Jeanz Place" in Cloverdale, Northern California -- without further ado, tonight's sunset:
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August 18, 2008 01:21 AM EDT --
Last night, it was the sunset... Today, it was THIS:
Makes me wonder what's on tap for TOMORROW...
;o)
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May 04, 2008 12:17 PM EDT --
(Author's Note: "Gold Ridge Farm" -- located in the Northern California town of Sebastopol -- was the location where the famed horticulturalist and plant breeder, Luther Burbank . . .
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June 13, 2008 04:18 PM EDT --
One could arguably say that -- out of the over 800 varieties of plants invented by famed plant-breeder, Luther Burbank (1849-1926) -- it was the Shasta Daisy ( Leucanthemum x superbum ) that . . .
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June 22, 2008 03:08 AM EDT --
The following first appeared on Nov. 6th, 2006 on "WonderQuest" with April Holladay on the USA Today website.
A photograph I took that I call "Is that your tail or . . .
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July 05, 2008 04:21 AM EDT --
Well, friends, Hubby and I headed off for downtown (such as it is) Cloverdale this evening (me with camera in hand) to watch the annual Lion's Club free fireworks show at the Cloverdale High Athletic . . .
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July 27, 2008 12:41 AM EDT --
I had a great time today at my friend's 90th birthday party... It was held in a huge room at a community center in a nearby town:
They had a band there that played wonderful 40s tunes like . . .
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August 14, 2008 02:02 AM EDT --
I bought my Canon SX100si camera about 4 months ago and, ever since I got it, I've wanted to take a really CLEAR zoom photo of the moon after dark... The 10X optical zoom plus 4X digital zoom built . . .
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September 14, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
A few years ago my husband and I were attending weekly evening meetings in a town about 15 miles from where we lived in Northern California and we developed the custom of stopping at a tiny village bar . . .
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February 29, 2008 01:14 PM EST --
I must start out by apologizing for not being around Gather too much in the last few days... I was doing stuff for my Mom and then I was pulling my hair out trying to get my NEW CANON SX100-IS CAMERA . . .
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May 04, 2008 02:21 AM EDT --
I had to attend a meeting today of the Western Sonoma County Historical Society (of which I am a past co-president and presently serve on the Board as Corresponding Secretary) in Sebastopol, California . . .
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May 16, 2008 04:53 PM EDT --
I've been trying for quite some time to get photos of at least two different "local residents" around our place here in Cloverdale in what I call "the wild hinterlands" . . .
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