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Birdfeeder
We bought a new birdfeeder for the New Year. Day 1: no birds found it, even though there were birds pecking on the leftover seed on the ground right below it, and they just left. Day 2: Came the brave and smart first one, who discovered the new birdfeeder. The feeder is designed half sealed…
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Columbia after Dark & a Letter Caught in Time
We went back to Columbia State Historic Park, a gold town of the 1850’s in the Sierras. I was touched by two highlights from this trip. The first is the original hand written Chinese letter from back in 1850’s. It was a letter from a son to his family back in China. From the writing, he…
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Coloma – Discovery of Gold, Business, and Life
We went back to Coloma yesterday. There’s something here I felt connected to: maybe it’s the Sierras, maybe it’s the discovery of gold, maybe it’s the serenity after the madhouse of the gold rush. While standing in front of the Sutter Mill, where in 1848 the first gold flake was found that started an era; how…