Monthly Archives: March 2008

Best of Nevada County

I mentioned in my Friday, March 7 blog that I met Terrilyn Chance, “The Unions” special sections manager, at one of the historical libraries in Grass Valley to shoot a few of the old maps for a project that she was working on. Well, in Friday’s paper was the 8th annual special supplement, The Best […]

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Easter

I’m a week behind on my blog but I’ve been getting my tax stuff together. What a royal pain, but now it’s ready for the accountant. So…. to catch up: Easter. The girls always love Easter. True meaning aside, for them, it’s all about candy. I took them to a community Easter egg hunt on […]

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Blossom Raindrops

Yesterday I pulled out a couple of Kenko extension tubes and put them on my Sigma 24-60 f2.8 lens to take a few close-ups of the rain soaked blossoms. The difficulty in getting these shots is focusing as the wind is moving the blossoms, I’m moving some as well, and the depth of field is […]

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Spring Blossoms

Beautiful weather this last week! Blossoms are appearing on the trees in my yard. Red, pink, and white. Here’s a photo from the front yard before sunrise yesterday with blossoms in the foreground. Dora was up and ready for school early yesterday and was playing with our dog, Sam. She’s always ready to jump into […]

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Dora is 8

My youngest daughter, Dora, turned 8 on Tues. She had really been looking forward to the event for well over a month. Every day asking “How many more days, now”. She saw a stuffed Pegasus in a Grass Valley toy store a few weeks ago and that was all she talked about. We went over […]

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