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September 2
From the road, the lake looked pretty enough. So we stopped, hoping to find a nice, shady bench to eat the plums we’d gotten earlier in the day. Found a bench, close to the water, and soon realized why no one was sitting there: the water was disgusting – full of green and brown algae with that lingering stink that crawls up inside your nose for a few hours.
So we took a walk instead, where we saw a long hedge that was completely covered with spiders’ webs. But aat least they didn’t stink, and some of them had water drops caught on them.
Clear Lake*, California
*Ironic, no?
photographed 7.29.2012
August 17
At the Jake Jackson Memorial Museum, I was sort of captivated by this crocheted doily, largely because I am not a fan of symmetry, and this is marvelously asymmetrical. Kudos to the crocheter!
Weaverville, California
photographed 8.3.2012
August 16
You didn’t really think I’d go on a trip and not come back with a photograph of a church, did you?
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Petrolia, California
photographed 7.30.2012
August 15
The groundskeeper was chatty, happy to have live people to talk to. He told us which graves marked members of the Oddfellows, where the town’s founder was buried, where the Masonic section was (“from here to that oak tree”), that he has a book on symbols of Victorian grave markers, that the doe we saw has had twin fawns three years in a row, and that sometimes the deer steal the plastic flowers on the graves.
detail, gravemarker
Weaverville, California
photographed 8.3.2012
August 14
This cemetery is located on 5 acres of land that was purchased in 1876 for $155; the land was too steep for farming. The first burial here was in 1877. Prior to that, burials were either in the Oddfellows Cemetery or on private land. After this cemetery was opened, the folks buried in the Oddfellows Cemetery were relocated. I assume they didn’t mind.
Ferndale Cemetery
Ferndale, California
photographed 7.30.12
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