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ANIMALS & CHILDREN - THE PERFECT PHOTO PAIRING

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  My son with a burro at a children’s petting zoo in 1972. He had fun teasing them. Too bad this cute story wasn’t published until last year.  It would have been the perfect story to read to my son after our adventurous trip to the petting zoo. Still at the petting zoo, he tried to feed the baby piglets. And this young seal (I think?) had him pretty excited.  That’s my younger sister holding him. One of my younger sisters seated on a pony when she was around 2 1/2 or 3 years old.  The pony belonged to a photographer who was roaming the neighborhood offering to take pictures of children sitting on it. My eldest daughter riding with a friend on Santa Catalina Island  in 1995 .  All three of our children had horseback riding lessons when they were younger. Pets in our household were limited to goldfish, tiny turtles, a hamster, a white rat, dogs, cats, & birds.  Our son grew up with and was best buddies with my husband’s beautiful Irish Setter, Schoen...
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WHERE DID THE CAMERA CATCH YOU SITTING?

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  The camera caught yours truly in 1942 sitting on a log in Muir Woods Redwood Park. It caught my 2 year old sister sitting on our Mom’s legs while she was  sunbathing at Lake Tahoe in 1947. In 1972 my 3 year old son was caught in the camera’s lens sitting on the edge of his sandbox which his Dad made for him.  When not in use that top dropped down to cover the sandbox and all the toys in it. My eldest daughter was caught lounging in her very own wicker chair at 6 months of age in 1973. In 1983 my son and two daughters were snapped sitting on a fence by the ocean in Crescent City, Calif. on a foggy foggy day which was not all that unusual for Crescent City in the summer. My Dad was caught sitting on the railing of the Meeks Bay, Lake Tahoe pier in 1930 when he was around 17. He was also caught sitting on a rock somewhere in the Tahoe area in the late 1930s. My brother and I were caught sitting on a rock in the middle of Meeks Creek, Lake Tahoe in 1958. In 1968 I was caug...
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TO MARKET, TO MARKET

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  To market, to market t o buy a fat pig. Home again, home again,  Jiggety-Jig. To market, to market to buy a fat hog. Home again, home again,  Jiggety-Jog. Farmer’s markets in Tuolumne County usually offer more than just fresh produce, jellies, jams & honey, etc.  They also include home-crafted items and, more often than not, musical entertainment. Honey & Run  Lucky CuZns Brass Band My brother & his open-air market in 1951.  A few years later and he might have had some pretty righteous musical entertainment for his market there in our backyard from over the back fence thanks to the fellows below rehearsing in their garage! I know I’ve bragged about this before, but what the heck!  It’s fun knowing where they started and how far they went.  Tom and John (Fogarty) had three other brothers – Jim (the oldest brother), and Dan and Bob (the youngest brothers).  Not much is known about them.  I just remember the five of them...
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