Photo Fave: Gray whale in the Klamath River, northern California
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| Whale-watching at the Klamath River, California. |
All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
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| Whale-watching at the Klamath River, California. |
All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
Here is a snapshot from a favorite Mother’s Day when nobody greeted me with breakfast in bed (not that I am opposed to that in the least). I started the day with a jetlagged baby deciding we should rise before breakfast was even offered on our cruise ship: the Costa Fortuna. It was one of…
Follow-up: Thanks so much to everyone who helped with this great cause! Together we helped get 20 million diapers to families in need in Canada and the U.S. 😀 Aloha! As some of you know, I’ve been busy exploring the gorgeous “garden island” of Kauai with my family—much to share—but there’s more to the story…
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You should know that I have been camping in Oregon since I was an infant. After relocating to California, it took some time to adjust to “bear camping” and the terrible inconvenience of using “bear boxes” and certainly “bear bags.” I mean, there just aren’t any bears in Oregon–or so I like to think. In…
Few visitors make it to the west-most edge of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, but those who do are often startled by the sight of this enormous windmill facing onto the Pacific. Queen Wilhelmina’s Windmill is one of two enormous windmills that were built in 1902 to help bring water into Golden Gate Park and…
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