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I was getting ready to leave the barn this evening when I caught this shot. This embodies everything I love about the barn and about summertime. It's so close -- summer is so close! And this weekend is our first horse show (and my first gymkhana!) AND the weather is supposed to hit 90F+ for the first time since last →
Symbol of a city
Anyone want to guess where I woke up this morning? :-)
Atonement
Yesterday at work was one of those days that I call death by a thousand papercuts. There's not any one big thing to make you insane, just a thousand little things that leave you wanting to tear your hair out by 5:00. Or rather, 5:30, since it's those little things that inevitably keep you there later than you'd planned. So 5:30 →
Golden boy
One morning a couple of weeks ago, I was at the barn, and turned Moose out in the arena to roll in the sand (one of his favorite pastimes.) After he rolled he got up, shook off, and then stood stock still in this patch of morning sunlight, perfectly posed. Thank God for cameraphones -- that's all I can say about →
Unlikely traveler
I had just pulled into the parking lot at work when I noticed this maple seed stuck to my car window, and it got me thinking. The seeds are designed for the wind to carry them. It made me think of how some seeds are designed for the wind to carry them, others for birds to carry them, others to →
Sunrise
I need to resurrect this blog. And what better way to do so than with a sunrise? I love my city so much.
August 10 on 10: Troubleshooting.
I will get back to this blog eventually--honest. I actually debating skipping doing this 10 on 10, since there are a ton of other things I should be doing, but I ultimately decided to cameraphone it, so that way I could keep some continuity going. Yesterday was all about troubleshooting. OK, maybe not all, but mostly. Over the course of the →
Itsy bitsy… OMG KILL IT WITH FIRE
John found this on our doorstep yesterday, so of course I had to break out the macro lens. :-)
The Pour de France – Sacramento’s second annual Bastille Day Waiter Race
I didn't have any exciting plans for last night -- just another Thursday, and I figured I'd stay home and work on my backlog of post-processing. Then yesterday morning I got wind via Sacramento Connect that in the evening, a scant three blocks from my apartment, the second annual Sacramento Bastille Day Waiter Race would be held. Now, given that I've →
Florida Trip Day 4: July 10 on 10, southern edition
So I fell asleep writing this post... ok, I fell asleep thinking of a title for this post. Whoops. Anyway, this by necessity is now ten pictures thrown together with little context, but I will say that (a) they're non-consecutive, and (b) it was a lovely, slow day where we went to the beach and hung out with friends. Good →
Florida Trip Day 3: Nerd heaven
Yesterday we spent the entire day at Kennedy Space Center. It's like Disneyland, only more awesome and more educational. Definitely more awesome. I totally didn't think that we'd spend the entire day there... I had no idea there was so much to see! But we got there around 10:30 AM, and closed the place down at 8PM, and there was STILL →
Florida Trip Day 2: Atlantis.
I had a hard time coming up with a title for this post, in case you couldn't tell. For a couple of days now, I've had several silly, punny titles kicking around in my head... but when I saw the shuttle launch, I knew that going with a silly title was the wrong tone. I just couldn't do it. It just →
Florida Trip Day 1: Where the h*ll is Kari (now)?
I went back and forth as to whether or not I should censor myself in the post title. I was trying to do a take-off on Where The Hell Is Matt?, because if I could be anyone, he's one of the top people on my list. Also, incidentally, if I hadn't been in Florida today, I would have gone out →
To trailer or not to trailer, that is the question
Ok, so it isn't really a question. Let me back up a bit. Meet my mom and stepdad. Back in October of 2009, they bought off of eBay Motors a 10' long, 1959 Shasta "canned ham" style travel trailer. It came cheap -- apparently it had been sitting in someone's back pasture and wasn't in the best of shape. In January of 2010, they →
June 10 on 10: Live like you were dying
10 on 10: A photo taken every hour, for ten consecutive hours, on the tenth of the month. ~~~~~~ Well, I was going to try to do a whole song theme for this post like my March 10 on 10 post, but alas, even though I searched and searched, I didn't find a Tim McGraw song I liked well enough and that →
Pictures of walls
I know I'm weird for taking pictures of walls, but I can't help it -- I like color, I like texture, and I like patterns.
Cameraphone = inherently more barn-friendly than a DSLR
I've been somewhat remiss in posting in the past week. I'm not even going to make any excuses this time... it kind of just is. You think this is bad, you should see my apartment... or maybe not. :-p Anyway, with the longer days have come more hours to spend outside doing things I love to do, like horseback riding and →
Leave our kids alone!
This is not a happy post. Remember how this past March, I wrote about how one of the Horses, Hope & Healing kids was hit by a car, and the driver took off? Well, crap has happened yet again with another HH&H kid, and I'm so sick and angry over the whole thing. Remember Rudy? He's the kid I wrote briefly about →
Posting this from heaven
I forgot to tell you all this yesterday, but I was raptured on Saturday. Grad school's done until the end of August, and now there's less than two weeks of school, and I will be free for the summer! I can't wait. I plan to spend lots of time at the barn, lots of time in the pool, and lots of →
Taiko!
Yesterday I rode my bike down to Old Sac with John and Mike for the Asian Pacific Rim Festival. Mike wanted to have some good Asian food, I wanted to see the taiko drummers, and John got dragged along for the ride. Now, if you've never seen taiko (link goes to the Wikipedia article) I really think it's one of those →
Damn cat… we’ll miss you
Yesterday (well, in relative terms -- depends on what time zone you're in, I guess) I was getting ready to leave the hostel for the airport, and I signed online to check in for my flight, and there was an email from John saying that our cat Scout had gotten out and had been hit by a car, and he →
Excuse me, I have a plane to catch; or, please don’t laugh at high school me
So this coming Monday is 10 on 10, and for once I'm not going to have to think about how to creatively shoot my stapler on my desk at work, because I'm actually going to be somewhere fun and interesting and different; somewhere that involves a long plane flight (hence my blog header for this month.) How fun and interesting and →