Full Moon in June

I heard that the June full moon would be the closest to the earth...so on June 22nd Yvonne and I went out to find it...We were driving along Silver Creek rd and we saw it rising above the hills.. here is the result of my photographs by the silver creek golf course. I gave it a painterly effect in photoshop cs4: (click to enlarge)

When we were through there we went to the Villages Golf course and took a few photographs through the trees..This is my best result:

Sure beats watching television..haha

Sutters Mill in Lotus, Ca

We had fun going to Sutters Mill...It is a State park in Lotus, Ca.
There is a Museum and lots of old Buildings and Mining  equipment from the 1800's...Here are some photos:
A Protestant church:

A Catholic Church:

An old Brick Building:

A statue to honor the founder of Sutters Mill:

 Here is an antique chair on a porch:

Here is an old car I found during our travels on Hwy 49:
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Sutter Creek, Ca visit

Sutter Creek, Ca is just a little ways from Jackson, Ca.. Here are some photographs of the town:

This is a creek that runs through the town:

Rving along the American river

This month we went camping along the American River not far from Sacramento, Ca.at Lotus,Ca...It is the first time I have been along a river camping in a long time...Here are a couple of photographs :
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After a few days we moved to Jackson, Ca to camp with my daughters in the Casino RV Park..It was fun...

Here is a sunset taken from our campground at the Casino:

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Another of the sunset showing the RV park:

Here are some more photographs taken along the American River:
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Ocean Panorama

Last night I was listening to a youtube tutorial on Nik software. (Nik software is now owned by Google)....Afterwords I made these two panorama's in Photoshop with the Nik Software plug-in's.
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Fun at a Lilly Farm

Today we went to a lilly Farm in the Gold Country... The flowers were just awsome...Here is a photo I took of a little frog suning himself on a lilly flower..I tried to get him to smile but he just looked at me... This is an Iphone 4 photograph: ( Click to enlarge)

Here is my first lilly photograph..I was so excited when I saw how perfect the flowers were that I took too many photographs..Lots of fun.