Through the Peephole(Checking up on what people are up to) |
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| Dinner time on the trail | Resting on the climb up to the top of Half Dome | A misty day in Blue Canyon | Aluminum ass, heart of gold |
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| The Love Bug | "Mmmm...my favorite flavor!" | W is for Wood | Those 70s Girls | |
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| Dessert time! | Tim & Teri ready to ride | Mikie, Edie & Zack at the pond | Safer than riding a tiger | |
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| Mikie & Jacob at the Frog Pond | Ethel Sharpe, smooth operator | Mikie & Justin, July 4 Parade at Twin Acres RV Park, Ohio | Boys in Blue | |
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| Bootjack Stompers Square Dance Club, about 1950 - Click here for names | Johnny Upshaw (about 1985) and brother Mikie Liddle (about 1998) under water at Jan Thomas Swim School, Clovis CA | Lee Jeffries & Abe Espinosa of Channel 47 at the Fresno Fair about 1966 | ||
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| Peeking Out | Wayne installing the chimney | Hiking at the San Joaquin Gorge, spring 2006 | Uncle Jimmy Weldon and Condor, Channel 47, about 1966 | |
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| Tim & Mikie at the Parents/Kids Hockey Game, April 2007 | Mikie climbs the wall at Mammoth Lakes, CA | Mikie gassing up the old Graham (Bodie, June 2007) | Hazel Estel & son Dick, June 2007 | |
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| Jennifer & Rod celebrate their 23rd anniversary along with Giblets | Could that be Jack LaLanne as a youth? | Way too much snow! | Fishing in the Chowchilla River, Mariposa County | |
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| It's critical for a goalie to remain hydrated | No matter how fierce the action, never let go of your snow cone! | The KJEO quartet, about 1967 | On Location - filming a commercial for Tent City Surplus at Millerton Lake | |
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| Patty Loveless at Huck Finn Bluegrass Festival | Lonnie the banjo man | Al Bess, patriarch of Nevada bluegrass | Charlie Edsel joins a jam | |
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| The Future of Bluegrass | Art Kershaw, soundman & hot mandolin player | Ken Pabst of High Plains Tradition and Ken Orrick of Lost Highway chatting backstage at the Logandale Bluegrass Festival, 2003 | Riding through the flood, Fresno CA, November 1967, probably near Fruit & Dakota | |
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| Don't ask me to explain this one | A family dinner | I am just SO cute | Donnie over Teddy in a knockout | |
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| Dissecting a tadpole | Buddies | Steve's Garage Bar | Camping in western Oklahoma | |
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| You again?! (Dick's been following Snap Jackson from festival to festival since 2009) | Like all fire fighters, Rod loves to start fires | Jennifer rides the seal | ||
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| Exploring the frog pond | Benched | Fishing Day at Black Rock | A little ice can't stop a kid from throwing rocks in the lake | |
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| Shooting Joshua | Conspiratorial smiles | Mikie, Zack and Ryan eating Oreos | Making toast in the storage compartment | |
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| Kickin' back at camp | Dick the Deejay | Bob and the buzz saw | A cool spot for a nap | |
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| Teri the tiny typist | Barefoot pickin' | A load of girls |
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| To Mikie, no water is too shallow for swimming | Posing for a family portrait | Private Dick busy at the typewriter, Fort Ord CA, 1962 | Private citizen Dick busy at the typewriter, KLYD-TV, Bakersfield, about 1964 | |
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| Uncle Ephus performs at the Pumpkin Patch, October 2012 | Mike McDonald and Doug Cornelius of Uncle Ephus |
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...and holding her 2013 birthday gift, the same lunch box | |
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Daughter Jennifer, with her first school lunch box... |
...and holding her 2013 birthday gift, the same lunch box |
Grandpa Tim holds
Colton |
Mikie with big fish caught in Lake Almanor, summer 2013 |
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| Mikie & friend in
front of the Hockey Hall of Fame |
Dick takes on a Herculean task | Dick is always trying
to climb redwood stumps |
Back in the late 60s, he sometimes succeeded |
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| What's more fun than a big bonfire? | An amazing leap! | Jennifer shows us how big a giant Sequoia tree is | "Now where the hell are those damn ad mats?" | |
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Bob looking sharp in front of his late model ride |
Wes on the Alta Peak Trail | Frieda on the wagon | Ladies on the lawn, early 1900s | |
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| The Grasskickers kick off the 2014 Bluegrass in the Park series in Clovis |
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The oldest active caller in the world at age 89, Ernie Kinney still sounds good | Not THE unknown soldier, but this photo found in a box of family photos is unidentified | |
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| Dick on his first of many photo expeditions to Nelder Grove | A peanut for Nosy, the Fresno Zoo's beloved first elephant |
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Terry on Grandpa & Grandma Callan's horse | |
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| Lew takes a break on the trail near Courtright Reservoir | Mikie, Teri and Max on top of Mammoth Mountain | James takes aim | THAT's a paddlin' | |
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Luke & Dominic sample the berry crop |
In a non-traditional approach, Jacob chops wood after it's on the fire |
Sand art on an Oregon beach | The infamous Sand Alien | |
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| Mark on the rock | Contemplating a climb | Johnny and Dustin, preparing a really huge camp fire |
Helen P, once and forever "The Purple Lady" |
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| He went up and down these stairs three or four times | Wes is famous for striking a pose on the edge (by Wes Thiessen) |
"I'm going to gather ALL the pine cones!" |
Johnny invents "pine needle boarding" |
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| Jogging, walking and biking on the Clovis Old Town Trail | Wes and Tim at Dewey Point in Yosemite (photo by Wes) | |||
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| The
Bigfoot Backpackers celebrate their Kaiser Hike |
Dustin and Johnny |
Don
brings Bob up to |
Construction crew in Clovis | |
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A dry canal becomes a skate park |
Real cowboys, real cattle |
Triumph! | Play-Doh Fun | |
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| Lost in the tall grass | Wes on the big flat rock overlooking Sycamore Creek | World's biggest sand box | Jack digs it! | |
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Collecting rocks to throw |
Even
a 3-year old knows the proper way to eat Oreos |
Colton
helps Grandma Teri stay hydrated |
Through
the trail tunnel under Herndon Avenue in Clovis |
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| Dick contemplates not a bush lupine, but a TREE lupine | Wes's version of "jumping the shark" | Colton works on acrobatics | Sailing on Bass Lake with Grandma Teri | |
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| Wes
bikes in the mist on the Windmill Century ride in July 2017 |
Jennifer
and Wes on the edge above Kaiser Pass, August 2017 |
Jack
collects sequoia cones at Nelder Grove |
Colton is building a ladder | |
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| The whole gang at Bald Mountain, 2002 | Ready to go down the slide | Fun in the back yard | Wes, swinging by the Kings River | |
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| Wes on the rock, juggling | Wes
on another rock, wearing reindeer antlers |
Just
hanging out at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park |
Fun in the park with Dick and Jack | |
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| In December, 2017, Teri, Colton, Jackie, Mikie and Lizzie made gingerbread houses, using graham crackers and a variety of other tasty construction materials | ||||
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| Jack
gives
a mighty jump on the Stomp Rocket launch pad |
And we have liftoff! | Anything
that CAN be climbed WILL be climbed |
Measuring a millipede | |
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| Raising the flag at Camp Four and a Half Cabin by the Kings River | Junior photographer at work | Daredevil at Taft Point in Yosemite | One giant step for Wes... | |
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| A meeting of the Parkfield Bluegrass Festival campground brain trust | Hanging
out on the caboose at Simonian Farms in southwest Fresno |
Colton gives Jack a ride... | ...and Jack returns the favor | |
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Investigating a big valley oak that fell near the upper Kings River in 2019 |
"With
just a little more effort, |
Cleaning dirt out of concrete blocks on Grandpa Dick's patio |
Johnny Upshaw, fierce fisherman | |
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| The wood-gatherers | Heading for the back country |
Teri climbs the 172 steps to the Buck Rock Fire Lookout |
A closer look | |
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| Wes pumps wood, not iron | ||||
