It's Black and White...

"If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'"

John Wayne

I don't think the Duke was talking about photography...

but then again...who knows for sure???

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On the Walk to Mono Lake...

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, 

he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

John Muir

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Just Hangin' Around...

What could be better than...

...a lazy afternoon alongside the golf course watching grown people chase

that silly white ball around...

What did you do today???

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Shhhh!!! It's Wordless Wednesday!!!

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Eternal Skies...

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds."

Robert Green Ingersoll

I'm going to be taking a Memorial Weekend break!!!

What's more memorable than lot's of friends visiting?!!!

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Signs, Signs, Everywhere are Signs...

the heart says the car is with Corazon...
and of course...we're the Mammoth builders!!!

"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship

with other human beings as we take our place among them."

Virginia Woolf

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Our Little Corner of the World...

...is turning upside down!!!

"The world is wrong side up.  It needs to be turned upside down

in order to be right side up."

Billy Sunday

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You Are My Sunshine...

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Victor Hugo


This weekend there was plenty of sun!!!
Quite a warm one in the LA area!!!

Yellow, by Cold Play



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Moving to Bodie???

"Good-bye God...I'm going to Bodie!"

excerpt from the diary of young girl who's family moved to Bodie

This is the Methodist chuch in Bodie...
As I mentioned yesterday...Bodie was a rough town...
but it's my understanding that Bodie also had quite a number of churches in its heyday...

The quote is an actual quote from a little girl's diary.
She wrote it upon learning from her parents that they were moving to Bodie...
The town was such a rough town that she interpreted it as
being doomed to a Godless town.




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Another Stop in Bodie...

"Gold, gold, gold..."
Sam Brandon


These words started the stampede that was to become known as the California Gold Rush...
Bodie was a bustling city back in the early 1900's...
although it was a bit rough around the edges...
lot's of murders, robberies, houses of ill repute...
but then...those miners needed to have fun!!!

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Looking Back...

"No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds!

We may be off the gold standard someday."

Mae West

Who knew Mae West was a prophet???

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Signs, Signs, Everywhere are Signs...

"In the childhood memories of every good cook,

there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot

and a mom."

Barbara Costikyan

Darn!!!  If only I'd have posted this one on Mom's Day!!!

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Our Little Corner of the World...

...is starting to melt!!!

This is Lake Mamie...next to Lake Mary, on the way to Horseshoe Lake...

We're in between seasons...it's not like the kind of Spring you find in lower altitudes...

with flowers everywhere you turn...

There are flowers in town, and in spots where the snow is melted already...

This is Lake George...and yes...Kelly is swimming with ice still covering the majority of the lake...

...and what better way to dry off than to wriggle in the snow patch???

"Time will pass and seasons will come and go."

Roy Bean

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