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| Saturday, 19-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Bodie.....Part 2
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I like the sepia tones I used in the previous series to show the feeling of age, but the colors of the buildings and sky are nice too, so this series is in color. What do you think, sepia or color?
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| Monday, 14-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Welcome to Bodie
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If you are traveling on Highway 395 near the town of Lee Vining or Bridgeport, California, you might notice a sign pointing east to Bodie. Follow that narrow, winding, climbing road for about 10 miles and you will come to a place that will take you back in time to a once thriving, rip-roaring, town second to none for wickedness. Prompting one little girl, whose family was moving there, to write in her diary
"Good-bye God, I'm going to Bodie". Bodie was a boom town in 1877 and the population reached about 10,000 people in 1879. The town rose to prominence when prospectors searching for gold, discovered what was to be the Comstock Lode at Virginia City, Nevada, and started a wild rush to the surrounding high desert country. Millions of dollars in gold and silver was mined in the hills surrounding Bodie. The town was more known for its wild living and the "worst climate out of doors", than its big gold resources. Every other building along the mile long main street was a saloon and 7 breweries were working day and night. Whiskey was brought in by horse carriages, 100 barrels at a time. Bodie had a Chinatown, with several hundred residents. They had their own town within a town and maintained their own customs and traditions including a few opium dens.They mainly sold vegetables, operated laundries and hauled and sold firewood. Only about 5 percent of the buildings that Bodie contained during its heyday remain. Today it stands just as time, fire and the elements left it--a genuine California gold-mining ghost town. It remains in an "arrested state of decay" maintained by the California Park Department. There are no MacDonalds or souvenir stores. Only wide streets with old buildings and unobstucted views of the town and hills around it. You can really feel the presence of the people who used to live and work there.
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| Sunday, 13-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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The Mallard
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While everyone else fished, I fed this mallard the crackers we brought for lunch. In return he let me take his photograph. He was very hungry and no one missed the crackers.
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| Saturday, 12-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Photo Challenge...Facade
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Front of an old building at the old ghost town of Bodie, California. Brick and metal with huge metal doors. To be continued....
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| Friday, 11-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Sky Time
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Back from a very nice trip. Hope to catch up with all of your photos soon. These are sky scapes in the Sierras and Owen's Valley. Vacations are fun, but it is great to be home especially after refereeing 3 grandkids. My new camera really got a workout. Good thing I got the new one before I left because we accidentally ran over the Coolpix 995 with the truck.
OUCH!!!!!
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| Wednesday, 26-May-2004 00:00 |
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Be Back Soon
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We are leaving for vacation to Northern California and then to the Sierra Mountains We are taking three of our grandkids and going to visit two more. We will be back around the middle of June. I hope you will all be taking lots of beautiful photos for me to see when I return. I will miss visiting here everyday. Be Safe and Happy!
Love, "E"
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| Friday, 21-May-2004 00:00 |
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New Camera
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My sweet husband surprised me Friday with a new camera. (A late birthday and upcoming vacation present.) It is a Nikon D70. It is a SLR and very easy to use. I have been runnig around the house and yard taking pictures this morning. No rhyme or reason to them. All just for fun.
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| Thursday, 20-May-2004 00:00 |
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Theme Thursday.......Frame
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Old window on a wagon, framed by cobwebs.
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| Monday, 17-May-2004 00:00 |
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The Backyard
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| Sunday, 16-May-2004 00:00 |
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Hummingbird Sightings for Chris
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Hope all of you are not tired of looking at these little fellows. I can't seem to stop taking photos of them. Hoping for just the right one.
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However in this particular case i prefer the sepia tone.I would love to photograph Bodie 
You took some awesome pictures of beautiful skies 
