pure luck...

[handmade34]

haven't taken many photos lately, but I am in (California) and work took me right past the César E. Chávez National Park... a slice of heaven in a drought stricken land...


http://www.nps.gov/cech/index.htm

Under the leadership of César E. Chávez and others such as Dolores Huerta and Larry Itliong, along with support from millions of Americans, the farm worker movement joined forces with other reform movements to achieve unprecedented successes that greatly improved working and living conditions and wages for farm workers. During the 1970s the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) grew and expanded from its early roots as a union for farm workers to also become a national voice for the poor and disenfranchised. The enduring legacies of César E. Chávez and the farm worker movement include passage of California's Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, the first law in the U.S. that recognized farm workers' collective bargaining rights.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These are very nice, my dear handmade34!

Thank you for sharing them with us!

[handmade34]

4. Peggy...

thoughts of you while I am working here in California...


I can feel the lack of water all around me and so many people do not seem to care we use the Kern River Parkway everyday and there is no "River" by the Parkway and so many people watering lawns in the middle of the day.... hmmmm

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. It's up to the local city governments to make and enforce water rules.

My town is taking this approach.

Most people just aren't with the program yet.

It is unfortunate.

[fizzgig]

2. most excellent!

love them

[handmade34]

3. I could feel the Love

that goes into keeping the grounds... beautiful roses and so many honeybees working the flowers

[fizzgig]

5. sounds lovely

i met dolores huerta once, but i was too young and uninformed to know who she is. i didn't really know or appreciate her, but i could feel her....power, for lack of a better word.