Sierra Foothill Garden

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• Dear Sue, I love your website. Found it by surfing the web for a Thanksgiving image. Would you consider giving me permission to use your Nov. 2010 "Wordless Thankful Wednesday" photo of the birds, pumpkins, pine cones and valley for my 2011 Thanksgiving postcard. These are for personal use only & I print them from Snapfish. I make about 30 postcards which go all over the continental US and to friends in Europe & the Middle East. I design my own stamp also from zazzle.com Of course I would credit you with the photo. So I am not a total stranger, I am a serious birder by passion (with some limited songbird banding training which I received along the Migratory flyway of Lake Ontario, outside Rochester, NY at Braddock Bay Bird Observatory. My friend is the master bander there,,,she would be one of the folks to receive my postcard!) and a psychiatric nurse practitioner in East New York-Brownsville, Brooklyn by vocation. I send out holiday cards with meaningful images to my friends to remind us of our great blessings. I just love your photo. It reminds me of visits to CA & my yearly summer trips to AZ. I hope you will consider permission to use the photo. No matter what your decision is, I wish you all good gifts & bountiful joy in your gardens. Thanks for pondering my request. Gratefully, Patti O'Kane

• Yes, you sure may...I photograph for pure enjoyment and am not possessive at all. I'm glad to know you like the photos

• I live on Malum Ridge. We should meet sometime!

  • Hi Sandy, I guess we're neighbors, then! How did you find my blog? Sue

• I was looking for spider pictures, trying to identify one we found on our property near North Fork, CA when I found your site. You even have a picture of the same spider. :)

  • Isn't Google wonderful? I'm glad you found it,...probably giant crab spider. The locals *call* them 'wolf spiders' but they aren't really. Always a bit startling. If you like gardening, you may like this blog... Sue

• I actually sent the picture into a spider identification web site and was told it is a variety of a Huntsman spider, also called a Giant Crab Spider or Woods Spider. Anyway, I subscribed to your blog because I do like gardening. My husband and I have a smallish one right now, but we are planning on expanding by next year to a much larger one. We love growing food for our family to eat.

• https://sierrafoothillgarden.com/2011/02/01/nz-week-tuesday-totaranui-and-abel-tasman-natl-park/

  Hi Sue

  I am a Kiwi living in London and was searching the internet yesterday looking for a beautiful image of the Silver Fern, and I found the above link which looks like a photo you took while on holiday in my beautiful country. I am wondering if you would mind me using the photo on my website that is being relaunched later this week. The photo will be used on my About Adele page. It will feature 3 images of NZ fauna I love. The Koru, your image of fern leaves (hopefully), and a Punga tree.

  I am a international small business consultant/coach/mentor, and I am re-modelling my 'stuff' a bit to bring a bit more of NZ into my teaching world.

  I look forward to hearing from you ASAP.

  Thank you in advance.

  Adele McLay XX

  • Yes, Adele, you may use this image,...sorry I didn't see this before... Thanks for the great comliment!

• Sue, I am writing the press release for the workshop you will be presenting in Sept. for the Oakhurst Library and I need to ask you a question. Please call me at your earliest convenience at 559-641-5435. Thank you.

• This post is for Sue Langely regarding Bill Tyson and Hillside Iris Gardens. I had the wonderful
  experience of going to his iris garden last year and bought iris to add to my garden.
  Do you know if the gardens will be open this year and when.

  Thank you,
  Lynda Pearson

• You have a post about burn piles that should be updated. Cal Fire's recommendations have changed over the years. If you have a suitably dry pile, you should not need fuel to start it. We usually start ours with a bit of dry kindling and the flick of a lighter. Current standards are to maintain a pile 4' in diameter, not the size of a car. While it's a hard standard to achieve (scotch broom usually taller than me and hard to cut in half), we go to great lengths to clear the ground and keep our piles on the smaller side. It can take a full day to go through our brush in a small pile. And we do that a few times each winter. Some neighbors like to make a fuss, but that's life in the woods.

  • Thanks, Blake,...I'll see to it.

• Hi Sue,
  First, let me say this is a terrific website!

  My husband’s family owned property in the High Sierra Meadows (2 hrs north of Oakhurst) that we sold when his mother passed away a year and a half ago.

  Among the family things we found the 1967 Oakhurst map. Do you have any idea what it’s worth and anyone who would want to buy it?

  Also, check out my website. I’ve got a gray fox on a vintage map of Yosemite.

  Thanks,
  Linda

  • Hi Linda,...I did a little blurb on the map you found...I found one at a thrift shop in my former town, amazingly... It wasn't until I scanned it at a high dpi that I REALLY saw it closely.
    Here's the link,...and although I'm sure many in this area would love your map, I wouldn't know how you'd find them unless you sold it on eBay or joined one of the local FB pages and described it there.

    https://wp.me/p3ghRX-2g2

    At least you'll know the history for sure,...and there's more detail in the comments...

    Thanks for your kind words!