Tag: sonoma county
group name: springsummertime
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April 17, 2009 06:24 AM EDT --
Hi, fellow Gatherers! How's your week been going so far? Are you seeing more springlike temps where you live? I hope so! :o)
Today, here in the "wild hinterlands" of Sonoma County in . . .
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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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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 . . .
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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" . . .
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April 03, 2009 10:53 AM EDT --
A hearty "howdy" to all my wonderful and loyal (not to mention good-looking ;o) ) Gather friends from the "ole singlewide" here in the wild hinterlands of Sonoma County in Northern . . .
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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 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 . . .
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June 16, 2008 06:18 PM EDT --
Good Monday (if there IS such a thing...) to all my wonderful, beautiful and and intelligent Gather friends!
Hubby having called me last night (the night he was due back from the "Redwood Run" . . .
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June 08, 2008 10:51 PM EDT --
What's that you say?
You're looking for the photos of the "Happy Cloverdale Sanitarium"?
Well... Uhm... Yes, about that...
You see, I really wasn't referring to the . . .
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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 . . .
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May 11, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
The second annual "High Tea" fundraiser held by the Western Sonoma County Historical Society yesterday at Luther Burbank's (famous plant-breeder, 1849-1926) Gold Ridge Farm (registered in . . .
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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 . . .
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April 09, 2009 06:19 AM EDT --
I had to chair a board meeting for the Western Sonoma County Historical Society day before yesterday that was being held in the "Caretaker's Cottage" at Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm . . .
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April 18, 2009 06:38 AM EDT --
The warmer spring weather has awakened some of our more "cold-blooded" residents here in the "wild hinterlands". And every year about this time, they put on their own small, local . . .
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June 06, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
Hello, all my wonderful Gather friends!
Well... Progress on the greenhouse I'm building has been slow but steady over the last week or so...
After:
1) Culling out 8 of the galvanized . . .
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September 09, 2008 10:30 PM EDT --
Today -- not only did I got several great shots of our little "neighborhood look-out", the Anna's hummingbird, I also got some cool dragonfly pix! (I'll publish those in a different . . .
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February 02, 2009 06:11 AM EST --
We have been fortunate here in Sonoma County in Northern California to have had beautiful days these last few weeks with daytime temperatures in the high 60s and low 70s and overnight lows . . .
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March 19, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
It's a marvelously secluded spot... I call it "My Secret Meadow"...
To get there, one must climb up two very steep (about a 75-degree slant) rises behind "the ole singlewide" . . .
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August 27, 2008 02:28 PM EDT --
I was feeling pretty frustrated after I took 12 photos of the Anna's hummingbird on a nearby branch of the oak tree this morning and the wind was blowing so hard that 10 of them came out . . .
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