I took the production photos for Godspell tonight. I was supposed to take them a couple of weeks ago but on the day of the shoot one of the cast members ended up being a 911 call after she fainted …
The Google Street View cam has made it’s way to Ferndale, which was pretty surprising. I had looked a few months ago and it wasn’t there but today while checking something else I saw that most of the town was …
Today Lori and I went to the Humboldt County Fair as regular patrons. With everything going on this year I decided not to have a booth this year so we got to enjoy the fair as regular folks for a …
My absolute favorite vehicle from yesterday’s parade from Pebble Beach was this Alfa Romeo. Not only was it cute and clean, it came all the way from Monaco. Picturing driving this car around the roads that make up the historic …
We went into town this morning to have breakfast with some friends and a number of antique cars were parading into Ferndale. The cars were part of the Pebble Beach Concourse run. One of my favorite vehicles was a Model …
The Ferndale Repertory Theatre is doing Godspell and I took the publicity and cast photos for the production. I haven’t seen the show yet, but maybe next weekend we’ll get the chance.
With all the smoke in the air, and an interesting layer of clouds forming, it seemed like a good night to try to get a sunset at Fernbridge. Everything went well until the battery in my camera went dead, and …
A group of volunteers raised money and with donations of supplies and labor, built 3 fine bocce courts in Firemen’s Park in Ferndale. Then they started the Ferndale Bocce Club. We have a potluck and play bocce on Sunday afternoons. …
Last year during lambing season, I saw the newborns in this field during the week, and planned a bicycle ride out there with Lori to show her. By the weekend they had moved the flock to another pasture and they …
There was a fire on Main Street tonight, but the good news is that it was only one of tractor floats in the annual Ferndale Lighted Tractor Parade. This year I decided not to set up my big studio lights …
Lori has long wanted Ferndale to have a Victorian event, so she helped organize Victorian Christmas. People were encouraged to dress up in Victorian clothes, and there were several different groups caroling throughout the day. Lori made a new dress …
November 7 Ferndale lost one of its most important and famous citizens, Hobart Brown. Known worldwide as the founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, he was an ecentric individual, in a good way. Tonight the town celebrated his life with …
Phil Ostler had a scissor lift in town so he could clean and repair gutters, and since it was a full moon last night I thought it would be a great opportunity to take some photos from a unique position. …
A shot that I’ve wanted to get for a long time was a panoramic of the sun setting in the west at Fernbridge and the moon rising in the east over the Eel River. I’ve tried it a couple of …
Just to be fair though, the side that is almost done looks very nice. I really like the multi-colored paint job better than the previous yellow coat it had.
Back in October I posted a photo of the Catholic Church being painted. Well, it’s still being painted. They are back to making progress after the delay of winter. On some areas that they did complete last year it seems …
The next show the Ferndale Rep is doing is Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is a natural, because what few people realize, is that most of the dairy farmers are into cross-dressing. Yeah, right. I’m taking the lobby shots for …
This pair of kitties was recently adopted by Valley Lumber as shop cats. I guess they’re taking their work seriously and now perform full safety inspections of the work vehicles each morning. Checking the tread depth is dangerous work, but …
Tonight we had a special fire drill, in conjunction with the Fortuna and Loleta fire departments. Since it was a mutual aid scenario we ended up doing it on a Wednesday night instead of our usual Thursday night. Towns people …
If you want to understand why our yard keeps flooding, you have to start here. This is the Salt River, which used to be a navigatable river for ocean going vessels to make their way to Port Kenyon. It has …
The plan for today was to try out our new snowshoes that we got for Christmas. So we drove up to the South Fork Mountains to find a tremendous lack of snow. I’ve been up there in June and seen …
After several community efforts to raise money for Ferndalers that needed help with medical expenses, a group got together to start a fund that would be available for that purpose. Their first fundraiser was an event at the fairgrounds that …
A cold front moving down from Alaska has brought the coldest weather to Ferndale since we’ve moved here. This morning I was watching TV and had just gotten through the weather report where they were talking about the storm when …
The Collingwood Inn recently got a new paint job so I thought it would be good to take some pictures of it during Christmas. Missed a great sunset on the 29th, but at least it wasn’t raining.
Last night was Ferndale’s Lighted Tractor Parade, one of my favorite Ferndale events. Lot of entries this year and it was nice to see the Leonardi’s back in the fray after a year’s absence. Bansen’s brought their train back to …
Maybe this is why they called it Ferndale? They say a rolling stone gathers no moss, but apparently a rolling 4×4 can gather a few ferns. Found this vehicle in the Ferndale parking lot.
Looking on the calendar I saw we had a full moon coming up so with the clear weather that we’ve been enjoying, I thought I would get a photo of the moon rising behind the Gingerbread. Only problem was it …
I had a photoshoot yesterday afternoon with a new model and had planned to spend the morning getting everything ready for it. The fire took up most of that time so then I thought we would just shoot outdoors, since …
Halloween morning in Ferndale sees a procession of tiny kids making their way through the commercial district trick or treating. First in line was Raggedy Ann and it was nice seeing a few parents are still into making costumes.
