Category Archives: My photography
Wild Turkey Courtship: the tail of Mario and John (I mean tale)
by cheri block In my ongoing efforts to appreciate wild turkeys instead of revile them, I took my camera out on Thursday to view them through a new lens. In fact, my lens is not new, but I now choose … Continue reading
Highway 50-50 and Huck’s Spiritual Gifts
by cheri block Deciding to make a bee-line to Chicago was Hizzoner’s idea. With that decision, we turned off of our beloved Highway 50 at Emporia, Kansas. Should we drive through Iowa and come into Illinois at Molliene so we … Continue reading
Highway 50 to eastern Kansas: rolling hills and greenery
by cheri block Full and warm with Joan’s home cooked breakfast of eggs, potatoes, and toasted rhubarb bread with preserves (and each of us now packing a weight gain of about 5 pounds), Hizzoner and I drive to Dodge City, … Continue reading
Lonely Highway 50: Kansas (part one)
by cheri block We eagerly anticipated driving across the middle of Kansas and stopping in small towns for lunch. Some have observed that the folks from the plains states are the salt of the earth,but I beg to differ! I’d … Continue reading
The compass redirects: Highway 50 through Colorado
by cheri block As I e-mailed to my good friend Linda, who lives in Walnut Creek, my blogging has been slowed by the following: our late arrival to our destinations, poor wi-fi and internet connections, and great wine. There, I’ve … Continue reading
Lonely Highway 50: We take a detour
by cheri block The lonely road isn’t so lonely, especially when The Judge decided that it would be fun to listen to all 27 disks of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and we are! In The Fountainhead, we meet Howard Roark, an … Continue reading
Lonely Highway 50: Southern Nevada through Utah
by cheri block The dry and endless desolation that I had expected in Nevada never materialized and this morning, as we headed southeast from Ely, Nevada (birthplace of Patricia Nixon) on a sparsely traveled road, we feasted on some of … Continue reading
Lonely Highway 50: California and Nevada
by cheri block On our way out of California, up Highway 50 out of Sacramento, we stopped at an old lodge that has seen better days. On the way to the counter (bar) for lunch, we passed several things that … Continue reading
The Mid-State Fair
by cheri block The Judge and I attended the Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles, California this past weekend. What a dandy experience. Paso Robles sits half-way between the Beautiful Queen San Francisco and the Urban Dude King, Los Angeles. The … Continue reading
All in a weekend
by cheri sabraw Until Dinah met a skunk last Sunday night, I had planned to have a dog living with me until I was no longer living. Even my secret recipe–the one with 1 pt. of hydrogen peroxide, 1/2 c. … Continue reading
