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The old Fresno Water Tower at the corner of Fresno and O Street is probably the city’s most famous icon. I read a comment on the internet by someone claiming it to be the second most popular subject for photographers in all of Central California, with Yosemite’s Halfdome holding the number one spot. In both [...]

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I wouldn’t have even bothered to go except I thought I might be able to get a few good shots. The weather was horrible, it was overcast and drizzling: COLD. I almost didn’t stay. I read about an event beginning at Fruit and Olive in the Tower District yesterday in the Fresno Bee, but I [...]

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Not long after I announced the official beginning of the recession, I read Starbucks would begin selling coffee for a buck a cup and yesterday, when I went into the local SBUX at West and Bullard I saw little cups on the back counter and asked the barista if they were selling $1.00 cups …. [...]

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Children’s Hospital in Madera California is truly one of the gems of California’s Central Valley. The hospital is perched right above the San Joaquin river basin just north of Fresno on hwy 41. I’m not a doctor or a hospital analyst but my layman’s guess is that this is truly one of the best – [...]

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What in the world were they thinking when they built the Fresno City Hall? According to Wikipedia Fresno’s “downtown was one of the last remaining examples of untouched architecture in California…” So here you have a city with all these older buildings, some of them, like St. John’s Cathedral (2 blocks away) are over a [...]

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Yesterday morning I decided to do something out of the ordinary, the ordinary being that Sunday mornings I usually attend liturgy at St. Peter the Apostle Orthodox Church here in Fresno Ca. I packed up my camera and went downtown thinking to shoot the city hall (and did just that) and then went a block [...]

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Yesterday was Theophany for old calendar Orthodox Christians. One of the basic tenants of Orthodox Christian faith comes from the Psalms: “God is the Lord and has revealed himself to us” Theophany refers to the revelation or “shining forth” of God on earth. When Jesus Christ was baptized the Spirit of God descended up him [...]

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After eating lunch yesterday at Arsenios on North Blackstone, I asked to myself  “why not share my dining experiences with a world starving for my opinions?”  Besides, my epicurean discoveries can fill the voids between posts on real estate.  So here we go… I ordered a carne asada burrito ($3.95) and while I was waiting I [...]

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and took these photos. If you look carefully in the forth picture you can see a cat down by the bridge. It looks larger than a bobcat to me; I suspect its a cougar. The coyote hung out by the road for a LONG time. I wish I got more captures of it. Yosemite is [...]

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Just about everyone who knows anything about Fresno knows that Fresno has a beloved Christmas Tree Lane located on Van Ness Blvd in Old Fig Garden. Old Fig Garden is known for its tree-lined streets with historic homes. Every year they string up lights on Old Van Ness and many of the homeowners decorate their [...]

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