The little town in which I live is Dos Palos. It's been here forever and has a diverse variety of neighborhoods. All of the outlying areas is farmland, however. Cotton is a major crop as is feed corn, melons, and alfalfa. Across the street is a goat farm that are raised for meat. There is one section that is composed of old houses in various states of deterioration. This area is in renewal and the old places are mixed in with fine new homes. These photos show a few of the buildings when Dos Palos was young. Photos taken with a vintage Moskva-5 folding camera made in the USSR many years ago.

I haven't posted to this blog since October 15, 2007. Since then we bought a house and I changed my email address. For some reason I was unable to log-in. I just found out that the reason was a one letter error in my user name so now I can continue with the blog, hopefully a couple times a week.

We moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to a small farm community in the Central Vally of California and we have about an acre of land to play with, so the direction of my blog will change to a more rural perspective.

For starters, I want to share a few photos of the success of my first attempt at growing artichokes. When I planted them last year, they did nothing, but continued to grow and are now producing wonderfully delicious chokes. They are now at a point where I don't even need to water them. Here are a couple of photos.