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ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE (or not)

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  My Mom walking along a busy sidewalk in San Francisco in 1937, taken by my Dad who worked for the same company she did and wanted to meet her.  He hoped giving her the picture he took of her would act as an introduction, and so it did. The Easter Parade.  The leader Is my middle sis, then me, then my youngest sis, and bringing up the rear is her boyfriend at the time – taken  on Carmel Avenue in El Cerrito, Calif. in 1968 on Easter Sunday.  There's a church up on the corner which is why there are so many cars parked on the street. We're not walking along a busy street although we did meet a few hikers along the way, but this is my family walking along a sandy road behind Meeks Bay, Lake Tahoe on our way to another, much smaller lake whose name I cannot remember.  L-R: my brother up ahead, me, my youngest sister, my Mom, & my middle sis.  1954 - I was 14. Mom had trouble with dirt or sandy roads.  She hated the feeling of sand or dirt in he...
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STONE GHOSTS

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  Stonehenge in England Standing stones in Wales An Irish circle of standing stones. Standing stones on the Isle of Arron in Scotland The standing stones of Stennes on the Orkney Mainland, Scotland The 5000 year old standing stones of the “Ring of Brodgar” in Orkney, Scotland The standing stones near Carnac in Brittany are smaller and stand in straight lines rather than circles. The giant statues of Easter Island HAPPY HALLOWEEN La Nightingail
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THE NEED FOR AIR

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  If you’re jumping out of an airplane, you’d better hope there’s air beneath you to fill your parachute.  More importantly, you’d better make sure you have a parachute!  1973 - my husband on the left.  Balloons need air. Twenty-two years ago during the time I was staying with my cousin in Reno, Nevada while my eldest daughter recovered from a serious boating accident in the hospital there,  the annual “Great Reno Balloon Race” was held and every morning for a couple of weeks as I drove down to the hospital, I saw fantastic sights like this.  What a way to start the day! J     Birds need air to fly, of course.  This is what my sweet Ella might have looked like as she flew around our house or when I took her to settle with a bird lady a few miles away who could take proper care of her, and she flew back to us instead.  What a bird. Y These are the young eagles, Sunny and Gizmo – Shadow and Jackie’s offspring of last year (’25) – who bec...
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WILDFIRE

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  Sights seen around a wildfire include fire trucks and their crews standing by, waiting for instructions. Helicopters loading up with water or special retardant to battle a wildfire from the air. And thank heaven for the pilots guided by spotter planes who maneuver their aircraft to drop retardant exactly where it’s needed. But it’s the gritty ground crews with picks, shovels, hoes, chainsaws, and whatever else needed heading into a wildfire on the ground who do the hardest work. We laughed at a fire crew spraying retardant foam all over this café in 1992 during the “Moccasin Fire”, but that’s where many of them were getting free meals!  Retardant foam is a way to save structures from a fire. Another way to save structures is to wrap them in ‘shake & bakes’ – personal protection when ground crews are caught In a fire.  This was an historic cabin in Yosemite wrapped up for protection from an advancing fire.  Wildfires can be a terrifying sight by day . . . . . . ...
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