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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

August 13

Hello, and welcome to another installment of Tiny Random California Roads I Recently Traveled.

If you take the Ono-Igo cutoff on Highway 36 at Platina (it makes sense if you’re there), you will be rewarded with spectacular scenery. And barns.

On A16, Humboldt County, California

photographed 8.2.2012