Gold Country, June 2019


Gold-rush town Chinese Camp today

Old Post Office and Wells Fargo station




Houses










10006 Main Street




Windmill with bird's nest




The Law

Tuolumne County courthouse, 1898




Oldest existing courthouse in California, 1850

(brought on clipper ship from China as a prefab)

         


Not quite so old (1867) courthouse




Still used today at times




Black Bart's 1884 penitential lodgings - and homage 2 the Po8

         


Jailhouse-wall garden




Forbidden fruit

The chief judge of Calaveras County prohibits all photographs of the courthouse, even from the outside - like this one




A 1900 personal computer ("The Millionaire"): it adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides!




RTFM




Natural Bridge trail

(Coyote Creek flows through a rock tunnel)




Tunnel mouth







Tis the season for buckeyes in the canyon







(This one hosts a visiting ladybug on the tip)



And shaggy clematis seed pods




Western humor in Sonora




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