Mardi Gras in Nevada City

Emma Nevada — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:56:20 +0000

I am sure that when you think of Mardi Gras, the first city that comes to mind is Nevada City, not! If not first, then it should be up there somewhere. We do in fact, have the largest Mardi Gras celebration and parade west of the Mississippi, and it’s this Sunday! At the Emma Nevada House we love having the parade queue up on the street in front of the house.

Wild and Scenic Film Festival

Emma Nevada — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:38:56 +0000

Nevada City hosted the Wild and Scenic Film Fest, and the Emma Nevada house had the pleasure of hosting Sir Patrick Stewart for the weekend.

Andy and Susan with Patrick

Early Snow for First Victorian Christmas

Emma Nevada — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:40:44 +0000

Emma Nevada — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:42:16 +0000

Miracle on 34th Street

at the Nevada Theater

November 27 – December 27

for more info call 530-268-5419

A wonderful Christmas play to get you in the Holiday Spirit!

Emma Nevada — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:13:03 +0000

One of the best things about January in Nevada City is the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. This 3 day event is the largest film festival of its kind on the West Coast! Once again the Emma Nevada House has been asked to host a featured guest …..

and this year………

it is……………………………….

PATRICK STEWART!

Fall Continues

Emma Nevada — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:54 +0000

Entering Nevada City

Well, I was wrong. Fall is still happening, and I finally got out to take this shot. I was standing out in the middle of Hwy 20 when a Highway Patrole officer pulled up. Thought I was in trouble, but he just smiled and said,”watch your back”, and drove off. – Andy

Emma Nevada — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:13:20 +0000

Had a really pleasant time roam- ing around Nevada City, looking for nice fall color to photograph. I was also looking to spot trees that might show up nice at another part of the day. So I spotted a sort of interesting tree next to an old barn, and got out to try and make something of the juxtoposition. As I was working, a car slowed down and then stopped right behind mine. As I was walking back the older woman in the car waved me over to talk. It turnes out that thirty years ago she had brought that tree back from a trip to eastern canada. It was illegal of course, and her husband had grumbled at her for the trouble of it all. She told him that someday people would be stopping to take pictures of that tree. My appearance had made her prophesy come true, and I could see that she was truly pleased.

AMGEN TOUR 2010 in NEVADA CITY

Emma Nevada — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:36:02 +0000

last years Tour of Nevada City

After much speculation, wishing and hoping, it was announced this morning that Nevada City is going to host the beginning of the May 2010 Amgen Tour of California.

YEAH!!!

Last June when Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer rode in the Nevada City Classic Bicycle Race they urged Amgen officials to make Nevada City a part of the tour. Thanks to much hard work behind the scenes Nevada City was chosen!

We look forward to showing the rest of the world our remarkable town – NEVADA CITY!

About Nevada City #1

Emma Nevada — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:35:50 +0000

Clouds over Nevada City

Susan and I bought the Emma Nevada House and moved here in May of 2005. We looked at B&B’s in Mendocino, Healdsberg, Monterey, and several other places. I would like to tell you that in the end our decision was strictly business, but that would not be the truth. We chose this place because it appeared to be a good business proposition, had a large owner’s apartment, but most of all, we absolutely fell in love with Nevada City. Also, it didn’t hurt that we were getting a beautiful Victorian with it’s own fabulous history.

It’s hard to explain how a little town of twenty eight hundred people can be such a dynamic and creative community. There are three live theater production companies, multiple sources of live music every night, a good number of wonderful and diverse restaurants, and all kinds of creative people engaged in uncountable endeavors. All this seems to stem from an odd kind of diversity. We have people whose families date back to the mining days, those that came for logging, left over hippies from the sixties, people who live at the Ananda yoga community, and recent arrivals from the SF Bay Area (like us).

Beyond all that there is something else, something that I noticed within the first couple of months we were here. You feel as if you are living in the flow of history, a tiny little side tributary to be sure, but a discreet ongoing, surviving and living flow of history. It’s true that places like San Francisco or Sacramento probably have more history, but they are so big, and the history goes in so many directions that one doesn’t necessarily have a sense of being in history. In Nevada City, the history is clear and ever present in its architecture, in the nature surrounding it, and in the minds of its caring residents.

Fall Color Prediction

Emma Nevada — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:13:43 +0000

One of our Maples

So I’m thinking that this might be a really spectacular Fall. It seems that most years the trees change over a fairly drawn out period, so you get color here, then you get color there. This year the weather change has been rather abrupt and a little late. That’s why I think we might get an all at once color change this year. As of today there are a lot of trees around that are just starting to change, but none that are in full color. My guess is that from this Thursday, the fifteenth, through the first couple of weeks in November, Nevada City is going to be a very colorful place.