DOWN ON THE CORNER (& ELSEWHERE)

 


They were up, but now they're down.  My husband (in white helmet) and another parachutist - late 1970s.

My Dad took this picture looking down on our family & our good neighbors’ family on a picnic near Santa Cruz, CA.  We had been to the beach, but it was a cool foggy day and we needed a place to build a campfire and get warm!  I’m in the white swim cap, lower left; my Mom is kneeling down next to my youngest sister; our neighbor, Ralph, is standing next to Mom; the child standing next to Ralph is my middle sis; and the two boys in front of me are Ralph’s boys.  I don’t know where my brother & Ralph’s wife, Janie, are – probably somewhere in that cloud of smoke?

Looking down on another picnic – this time at Stinson Beach, CA.  L-R: youngest sis, middle sis, & my brother.  And this time, I took the picture.  

I took this whimsical shot looking down on my youngest sister on our backyard patio from my bedroom window – this was before the roof over the patio was built. 

Dad & my brother looking down as they build the redwood cover over our patio.  (Note: behind them is a downspout.)

The confluence of the middle & north forks of the Smith River in Gasquet, CA taken from the path I used to take from our cabin to ‘town’.  I traversed this path with my son in a backpack carrier when he was old enough to sit securely in it.  Neat to get away from pushing him in a baby buggy on the road.

Looking down on the annual Gasquet Raft Races on the Smith River - taken from an advantageous point of view.  Some of the participants in the race were serious about it.  Others just enjoyed the day floating down the river together - some, of course, with sufficient amounts of beer on board - waving to friendly observers along the shoreline.

Descending the path down to the smaller, more private Lester Beach (opposed to the main beach) in D.L. Bliss State Park, Lake Tahoe, CA.  Going down was okay.  Coming back up required a little more oomph – especially if you were carrying things like your beach chair, towels, & a cooler!

Saying goodbye to a granddaughter from the deck of our Tahoe cabin that year.

As mentioned last week, here’s a view of Emerald Bay looking down from a window in the Tea House atop Fannette Island, Lake Tahoe.  The Tea House is part of Vikingsholm, a ‘castle’ built at the closed end of Emerald Bay.  Back in the day, the lady of the castle liked to row out to the island and in her long skirts, climb well-cut rock steps (now mostly crumbled) leading up from the boat landing to the tea house with servants lugging along whatever might be needed.  (I’m assuming the tea service was stored up there?)  There were furnishings there back then, and glass in the windows, along with a small fireplace to heat the water for tea and/or keep the room warm in chilly weather.

The little fireplace in the Tea House and views of the bay from two of the four windows.

Looking 3000 feet down on Stateline, Lake Tahoe from our gondola.  Funny, I felt more comfortable going down than I did when we were climbing the other way?  I wonder why?

Looking down on Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park from Glacier Point.

Viewing glaciers on Denali (Mount McKinley), Alaska, from a plane flying overhead.  My husband & daughter went.  I need Valium to even fly on large commercial jets, so they went without me with my blessing!

Looking down on our ship (center) from a tram in Juneau, Alaska.

Here’s a very different sort of ‘looking down’.  Looking down in order to safely view an event happening up as the earth’s shadow creeps across the sun. 

:->

La Nightingail

           


        John Fogarty & Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Down On The Corner" on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1969.  When interviewed by Ed after their performance they said they were from San Francisco, but actually they were from an East Bay community called El Cerrito where Tom & John Fogarty were my over-the-fence backyard neighbors. (I've mentioned this before.) :[]

I did it, I did, I did it!!!  Thank you Kristin & Barbara!! :))

Comments

  1. KristinMarch 11, 2023 at 6:53 AM

    Have you tried the "share" button on youtube? You can choose to copy the code and paste it into your blog post when you are writing it. It's easy on word press, don't remember on blogger.
    That looks like a lovely path above the river to walk to town on.

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    1. La NightingailMarch 11, 2023 at 9:16 AM

      Thank you so much for the suggestion! I'll try it!!! :)

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    2. La NightingailMarch 11, 2023 at 9:22 AM

      Oh, and yes, it was a wonderful path to walk on. There were some tricky narrow places along the route, though, & thinking about it now, I wonder if it was wise to trod it with my son on my back? But I was young and sure of myself back then as we all once were! :[]

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  2. Barbara RogersMarch 11, 2023 at 9:02 AM

    YouTube videos are easy to post in Blogger. Click on movies icon, next to photos. It says YouTube? Click there. Then it asks to search for it...give the UR from your YouTUbe video. Then click on that photo, and it will be posted. You can't watch it until it's been posted...I found out that it's consistently there though.

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    1. La NightingailMarch 11, 2023 at 9:18 AM

      And thank you, too, for your suggestion. I'll try yours as well. Hopefully one of these suggestions works because once in a while I would really like to be able to post videos! :)

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  3. Monica T.March 12, 2023 at 1:52 AM

    Wow that's at lot of photos looking down! My favourite photo is that of the window in the stone wall - so beautiful. I enjoyed the Creedence video too. Never thought of that movies icon in Blogger... I've been using roundabout ways! (lol) From YouTube one can post to Blogger, but then it ends up in a new post (draft). But it's then possible to copy it from there to a draft one has already started... (Then too it does not run until posted.)

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  4. Mike BrubakerMarch 12, 2023 at 6:45 PM

    So many downs! You certainly found enough of that perspective to fill three posts. It occurs to me that a family in Kansas or Delaware might not have so many down views since most everything is on the level. Whereas in your part of the country the landscape seems to offer much more ups and downs, at least of the dramatic kind. Your last two, looking down at the cruise ship and then up at the eclipse were very clever. And I'm glad you discovered the YouTube button. I look forward to more on your new blog. How's your snow/rain this week? Hope you are safe.

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  5. ScotSueMarch 15, 2023 at 9:53 AM

    Looking Down never occurred to me when I was writing my own post, but you have given us some wonderful images - my favourite view the one of Emerald Bay. I was slow in the uptake, with your first photo of the paratroopers, wondering what on earth were they carrying.

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