Tag: “Southern California”

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  1. Apple Hill

    Apple Hill, located off Highway 50 between Placerville and Lake Tahoe, is best known for the many apple vendors and beautiful scenery. There are wineries with tasting rooms, micro-breweries with tasting rooms, fruit vendors, and Christmas tree farms.

  2. Alcatraz view

    A view combining two of the things commonly associated with San Francisco - Alcatraz and the roads down the hill sides.

    Taken during a Universty field trip to the US with my trusty Eos500 on Fuji slide film.

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  4. Marina Small Craft Harbor

    San Francisco, California

    8 July 2006

  5. Taylor Creek Visitor Center

    The Visitor Center, located in South Lake Tahoe on Hwy 89, is operated by the National Forest Service. It has an easy self-guided nature walk and a stream profile room where you actually view Taylor Creek from below the level of the creek.

  6. Echo Lakes, California

    Echo Lakes, California, is located off Highway 50 between Placerville and South Lake Tahoe. There are two small alpine lakes in the High Sierra Nevada Mountains at about the 7,000 feet above sea level.

  7. Pigeon Point Lighthouse

    Pigeon Point Lighthouse is one of the many (and easily accessible) lighthouses scattered along the California coastline. The last time I’ve been there, the federal government was trying to sell the lighthouse to a private party because the $1 million annual maintenance cost was burning a hole in their budget.

  8. El Dorado Park -- Nature Center

    El Dorado Park, and El Dorado Park Nature Center is a place where family can go picnicking, or a couple, or just friends who wants to gather and meet up, to set a stroll around in the park or the Nature Center (wild life sanctuary).

    It has various species in the Nature Center, ranging from Great Egrets, Coyotes, Owls, Rabbits, Squirrels, to Monarch Butterflies if seeing them in the right season.

    Sometimes if the day is just right, the right brisk of ice-cold weather, you can see some residue on the wild flowers. Somedays the man made lake, and stream you'll be able to see the purest stillness in the water, to create mirror-like scenery.

  9. Tokyo Kitchen

    Surviving 15+ years (an eternity in small business years!), Tokyo Kitchen stands head and shoulders above the countless Sushi & Teppan Grill digs in So. Cal's Inland Empire.

    Been eating here with The Fam.

  10. St Peter and Paul Church