Beautiful exposure and composition. Love the textures and technical imperfections of its "rough" hand constructions. I lived near a place in northern CA. named Scott's Valley, which is located between San Jose and Santa Cruz, but noted that there are other Scott Valleys in the state. I don't think my Scott's Valley would get but a rare dusting of snow, however.
Jack --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is the side of a house my great grandfather built in 1858. He > came from > Scotland to California for the California Gold Rush. He did end up > making a > good bit of money -- with a cattle ranch. :-) > > When I went up to northern Northern California to visit Scott Valley > where > my father grew up, I went around and looked at historical sites, > especially > sites related to my family. Most all I had seen before, but when I > was much > younger so it was good to revisit them. > > The ranch is still there, owned by two doctor brothers as a tax > write-off. > They, very nicely, have preserved all the old buildings. > > It wasn't very big, about 10x10' or 10x15' with a low roof. A larger > house > was built much later. It snows up there in the winter, sometimes a > lot. They > would have lived crowded into this little cabin in heavy snow. > > > I wasn't using a tripod, and I think it's just semi-interesting, but > the B&W > conversion seems okay. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/homestead.htm > > Comments welcome. > > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
