Weekend Roundup

 Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

Starts with C

Favourite

CRACK- chosen by Tom

TATS and TOTES

I'm going to feature the many Toronto tattoo and cannabis outlets that are proliferating around the city.

Starts with C

CORNER Pocket Tattoo on Bloor St. W

FAVOURITE

CALICO CALIFORNIA 

CRACK(S)

CALIFORNIA 2012

FRINGE BENEFITS

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge and Which Way Challenge

Signs: traffic, directional, signs along the roads or on buildings



Ballyvaughan Ireland

Calico CA

Honolulu Zoo Hawaii

Tuesday Treasures

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme. 

March 2013 - Calico CA

Calico is an old West mining town that has been around since 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. With its 500 mines, Calico produced over $20 million in silver ore over a 12-year span. When silver lost its value in the mid-1890's, Calico lost its population. The miner's packed up, loaded their mules and moved away abandoning the town that once gave them a good living. It became a "ghost town."

Walter Knott purchased Calico in the 1950's architecturally restoring all but the five original buildings to look as they did in the 1880's. Calico received State Historical Landmark 782 and in 2005 was proclaimed by then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's Silver Rush Ghost Town.

 

The Calico Bottle House was built after 1951 when Walter Knott began restoring the Calico Ghost Town as a tourist attraction. The Bottle House was built with more than 5,000 bottles.

Tuesday Muse

Tuesday Muse is hosted by A Rural Journal.


Taken outside Calico Ghost Town in California March 2013.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

I'm joining the Scavenger Hunt Sunday sponsored by Ashley.

This week's items are:

1. Lucky
2. Irish
3. Daylight
4. Pot of Gold
5. Clover

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

LUCKY -  I am so lucky to be able to travel as much as I do with my husband, we both enjoy going different places and trying lots of food! We've been away from home since the end of November and it's been an amazing journey.
I made this collage a couple of weeks ago for my Travel Timeline page.

IRISH - I'm Irish, born in Dublin!! If I was at home I could find lots of Irish things or I could post a photo of me......or my Irish passport...

Instead I'm going with a collage I did about one of our trips to Ireland.

DAYLIGHT - Arizona doesn't do Daylight Saving Tine so this was on TV to remind people.

POT OF GOLD - I took this guy's photo in the ghost town of Calico last week.

CLOVER - for some reason I had a hard time with this until my husband said just use a photo of a shamrock. This was a banner in a shop in Cottonwood AZ this week.