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  • Desert Wildflowers

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    Despite the fact there is still severe drought going on in California, the rains that did fall in our region brought on a beautiful high desert wildflower display. You can see exactly where the rain clouds were because of the carpets of desert dandelions and then they are gone where the clouds stopped. The first ones…

  • La Jolla

    La Jolla

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    La Jolla is a lovely seaside area north of San Diego. La Jolla is pronounced La Hoya; there are many word challenges in Southern California – j is pronounced h, l is pronounced y, but not all the time. I visited La Jolla with my photography club (Inland Empire Photography Club) for a workshop led…

  • Mt. Palomar

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    Mt. Palomar at 5,617′ looms over the Temecula Valley. You can see the huge white observatory from the valley floor and surrounding foothills. Check this link for more information about the Hale telescope that is run by California Institute of Technology: Palomar Observatory I have yet to make it to the observatory as they close…

  • Where have all the dairies gone? Long time passing

    Where have all the dairies gone? Long time passing

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    Whenever I give myself extra time for my many road trips, I use the ‘no highways’ option in Google Maps. In doing that last year, I passed a number of huge dairies and many head of Holstein cows happily grazing their way through hay. They were the first dairies I’d encountered in Southern California; being…

  • From Egghillphotos: 2013 in review

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    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,100 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…

  • Lunch Notes

    Lunch Notes

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    As a response to the weekly writing challenge – Lunch Posts, in The Daily Post, I’ve reflected on my lunches within a four-day period during recent days and the differences between them. This is the first time I’ve responded to one of The Daily Post’s writing challenges, good practice – right? Saturday was 75 degree…

  • Wine Country

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    The wineries in Temecula number 35 or more (depending on whether they are members of the Temecula Valley Winegrower’s Association). They vary from very old wineries to spiffy just built wineries with views of the surrounding vineyards. I’ve been drawn to the fall colors of the grape leaves as they still haven’t dropped and are…

  • Happy New Year!

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    1/1/14 A new day, a new year. It’s beautiful weather here today, temperatures will probably reach 70 degrees or 26 degrees Celsius, a light breeze, hardly a cloud in the sky. The collared doves have been singing their monotonous song all morning: who who – who who, over and over again. I find it strangely…

  • Owens Valley Earthquake, 1872

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    A recent drive through Lone Pine, California allowed for enough time for a few photos of the Eastern Sierras and a graveyard created for victims of an earthquake that happened on March 6, 1872. As you may know, areas of California are prone to earthquakes due to the many fault lines lying crisscrossed just under…