Tag: sonoma
group name: californians
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August 30, 2008 09:54 PM EDT --
OMG!!
I couldn't BELIEVE IT! I SWEAR the mated pair of red-tailed hawks that live near here in the hills above Cloverdale actually CALLED ME OUTSIDE to photograph them together!
How ELSE can . . . more
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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 . . . more
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April 28, 2008 06:57 PM EDT --
Every year in late April, the little Northern California town of Sebastopol puts on "The Appleblossom Parade"...
Sebastopol was once the center of the Gravenstein Apple orchard business and . . . more
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May 12, 2008 12:00 AM EDT --
It's Monday again, time to start a new week. Do not do this without a smile on your face.
We'll have a passel o'humor at Gather Essentials: Writing as the day progresses, . . . more
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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" . . . more
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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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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 . . . more
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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... . . . more
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June 20, 2008 12:41 PM EDT --
This morning I heard the unmistakeable sound of a hawk outside. Still in my nightgown, I threw on a pair of tennies, grabbed my camera and ran outside...
I practically flew! Running to the . . . more
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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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August 15, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I fear that, once again, I have been deliberatly misleading, my dear Gather friends, in my choice of a title... and, I apologize for that... But, I feel that once you get a peek at this dear, little . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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April 28, 2008 01:57 AM EDT --
Sonoma County here in Northern California where I live is like a "bizarro-world" in a lot of ways -- no, that's true... Well, you take, for instance, our (ahem) highway system... There's . . . more
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April 20, 2008 09:35 PM EDT --
I'm so, SO EXCITED!
I've been seeing a flash of blue in my front yard for a couple of days... At first, I thought it was a pair of barn swallows because, you see, actual "bluebirds" . . . more
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September 01, 2008 10:23 PM EDT --
I have been saving a small cache of photographs that I took at Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm (registered in the "National Register of Historic Places") in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, . . . more
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April 20, 2008 01:54 AM EDT --
Last night, I published an article telling everyone to take a look at the moon because (as it was rising, at least) it seemed just HUGE to me and included a photo I'd taken the afternoon before just . . . more
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April 25, 2008 08:33 PM EDT --
Well, today was the first day in three days that it wasn't cloudy or raining and I went outside to look at my plants to see what was blooming. Why don't you come along? :o)
First, I found my . . . more
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June 12, 2008 08:10 PM EDT --
I apologize for not being around Gather very much lately but, I've been busy over the last few days with historical society commitments, doing stuff for my mom and getting Hubby ready to head out . . . more
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July 13, 2008 02:56 AM EDT --
Each year at this time, our usually-modest Sonoma County airport boasts more Lear jets than Washington DC's Dulles... The reason for this is because, for a week or two in July each year since . . . more
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