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A black Angus Bull is standing in an irrigation ditch alongside the road in outside Fresno, California. This was done from a photograph taken in 1959 along Chestnut Avenue in Fresno County.By 1959, the �Okies� who had migrated to California to escape the dust bowl had largely become integrated into society. My Uncle had worked on the docks as a boy when his father brought them to California. Given a choice, he mustered out here when he left the marines after World War II. He bought 10 acres in Fresno County and proceeded to try and raise cows and goats while he worked as a civilian employee for Lemoore Naval Station. This was his Black Angus bull, Snowball.

Gail Daley is a self-taught artist and writer with a background in business. An omnivorous reader, she was inspired by her son, also a writer, to finish some of the incomplete novels she had begun over the years. She is heavily involved in local art groups and fills her time reading, writing, painting in acrylics, and spending time with her husband of 40 plus years. Currently her family is owned by two cats, a mischievous young cat called Mab (after the fairy queen of air and darkness) and a mellow Gray Princess named Moonstone. In the past, the family shared their home with many dogs, cats and a Guinea Pig, all of whom have passed over the rainbow bridge. A recent major surgery on her stomach and a bout with breast cancer has slowed her...