July 2014 – Marsha Ingrao

WP Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’

Some things never change. MOST people love being near water in the summer.

As some of you know, it is because of this blog that I have a contract from Arcadia Publishing company to write a pictorial history of Woodlake. These are some pictures taken around 1911 that Chris Crumly, one of the book’s contributors sent me.

Long Beach summer day

I’m thinking that maybe the little guy wasn’t as crazy about the ocean as his father expected him to be. Maybe big brother could encourage him.

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Can’t you just hear this conversation? Is dad wheedling or demanding? I think big brother echoes whatever Dad says, pleading in a higher, hopefully more convincing, voice.

Woodlake should be out in January. I can’t thank the wonderful people who are helping me enough.

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Travel Theme: Purple

Old ladies and purple go together. Quilts and old ladies go together. Therefore old lady’s quilts should be purple.

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OK that doesn’t make a lot of sense, but someone picked out these purple fabrics and created a quilting contest around them. I wonder if she/he was an old lady? These quilts don’t look like my grandmother’s quilts!

This quilt may have been over blinged. How many kinds of bling do you see? — Can you find the contest fabric in the two quilts shown so far?

I showed you some of them a year ago, but I’ve just been waiting for the right time to show off some of the other creative efforts.

Enjoy these quilt clues as you figure out which fabrics quilters had to use.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers

A container holds something. A car holds people. Therefore a car is a container.

Smile, it was supposed to be funny. :) — Smile, it was supposed to be funny. 🙂

Actually, the museum building is also a container. It contained mock buildings, which contained relics.

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Container is a noun. Contain is a verb. Vince and his son could hardly contain their excitement when we went to the California Auto Museum in Sacramento. Uncontained excitement, like uncontained anything spills out and gets all over.

containers3 — Have you ever seen such intensity? I couldn’t contain myself from taking this picture.

Their excitement spilled all over me, and I loved the museum, too. My pick for today’s visit – a classic Woody. This container even contains a container in the back.

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If you ever get to Sacramento, don’t miss this well-kept secret.

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Don’t Underestimate Repair Times for your Travel Trailer

On the way back from the coast, the bottom panel of the trailer twisted out from the side of the trailer like a leg broken in 10 places from the hip down. When we got home, my husband ripped it off, and towed the damaged trailer into the repair shop. They know us on a first name basis there now.

When you have a trailer, you sometimes forget what’s in the trailer, and what’s in your cabinet in the house. It’s not a problem if the trailer is right outside in the door.

See, there it is across the lawn. It stores lots of goodies I forget about.

When I discovered that my hair dryer wasn’t in my bathroom drawer, I knew it was in the trailer, and the trailer was gone. I didn’t panic because I figured it would be a simple in and out, and I’d have the dryer back in a couple of days. It seems I underestimated by about six weeks. My loss was an opportunity to enjoy going natural in the beautiful sunny mornings. I go outside with my wet golden locks, and start brushing.

As I sit and brush, I have plenty of time to look around. Sunlight sparkles illuminating a vast number of spider webs in the eves, under the chairs and table, and in the garage door windows. They keep calling me until I quit brushing, and pick up my web-buster.

The moral of this story. Don’t leave your hair dryer in your trailer if you hate dusting cobwebs.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wood

The rich element of wood surrounded us as we drove north on Interstate Five towards Oregon. The abundance of evergreens that grows in Oregon starts here in the northern part of California near Mt. Lassen.

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Besides the Sequoia Redwoods that grow a few miles east of Woodlake, the Redwoods offered tree displays that exist nowhere else in the world.

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Once logged, only imagination limits what wood will become.

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Wood protects our heads from Oregon moisture while at the same time moves us to tears.

oregon trip 201320130913_0090116 Families build memories at tables made of wood. Myrtle wood grows only in Southern Oregon and Israel. We stopped at the North Bend Myrtlewood Factory to see the array of Myrtlewood products.