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FacebookThe 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 →
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.
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 →
Soaking in the color
I think I set a record with these pics for the shortest it's ever taken me to post-process a session. Ok, I kind of lied... I'm not done with the session. But it's the fastest I've ever pulled out this many, anyway. On Saturday after work, I took some pictures of my coworker Kim's (of Yep They Are All Mine fame) →
Welcome.
It's spring break, y'all!! :-) Yesterday morning I had to drop off my car at the repair place because, as I was rolling up my windows at the barn on Tuesday, my driver's window suddenly fell inside my car door. If you've been reading for a while, you may remember that this happened to my →
Moose + kitten = CUTE OVERLOAD
Someone dumped a litter of four kittens in a box at the barn yesterday, and while I didn't manage to be one of the lucky four to get to take one home (not that we need a THIRD cat anyway) at least Moose got to pose with one. OMG MOOSE LOVE!!!!!! Seriously, I can't stand the cuteness here. By the way, while →
You all know the tune, even if you don’t know the name
The following post was John's idea. Ok, the pictures were my idea, but when John saw them, he got the idea for the post itself. First, go click on this link (it'll open a new window), and click play on the video. Close your eyes for a moment. Let it wash over you. Open them for a minute and look at the →
The Interloper
I do realize that today is Tuesday, and as such, I should have a Moose post online. But honestly, this past couple of weeks have been so crazy that unless you want to see a picture of the gnarly nasty ear infection he had, there's just nothing for Tuesday Mooseday. Sad, I know. But trust me, you did NOT want to →
Dear Seattle. What do you do with all your rain? Please reply quickly–we’re running out of places for ours. Love, Sacramento.
It has been a really really wet winter here in Sacramento. The rain started early -- around the beginning of November, I think. We got a brief respite in January (of all months to get a brief respite from rain) but since then, it's been more on than off. And the past two weeks have been especially wet, with much →
It’s funny how one thing leads to another
Disclaimer: Today's pictures aren't mine. Read on for why. :-) When I sold Moose almost six years ago, I would have never in a million years dreamed that I'd own him once again. (If you missed that part of the story, go here for the details.) But somehow, through the grace of God and random twists of fate, I do, and →
Neighborhood music
This past Saturday was Second Saturday, so John and I walked over to the coffee shop across the street from us to grab a drink and watch Stoneberry, the band a friend of mine is in, play. It was a kick to just hang out and people-watch and listen to some good live music, and get to really relax and →
March 10 on 10: Five O’Clock World
10 on 10: A photo taken every hour, for ten consecutive hours, on the tenth of the month. ***** STOP! For today's 10 on 10, click here to listen to Five O'Clock World by the Vogues, turn your volume up, come back here, and keep reading. :-) ***** Up every mornin' just to keep my job I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob →
Pat the bunny
The little girl in these pics is the same one on the miniature horse in this post from last October, my first Tuesday Mooseday. She was out at the barn with her pet rabbit last Thursday, and this rabbit had to be the absolutely most quiet, patient rabbit I've ever seen -- it was perfectly content to just curl up →
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart
The quote in the title of this post is the last line of Anne Frank's diary. I think I first read that book when I was in the third or fourth grade, and even then, the irony of the line struck me, given why she had been in hiding in the first place and why that was her last entry. I →
Wandering around my neighborhood
If you know me, you know that I have this slight tendency to overcommit myself and end up with a breakneck schedule. (Mom, quit nodding. John, you too.) I work full-time, go to grad school full-time, have a horse, take pictures, and write this blog. The blog alone is somewhere in the neighborhood of ten hours a week, sometimes more (depending →
Signs of an early spring
One of the nice things about my photography habit is the record that it establishes for my sometimes spotty brain. I noticed last weekend that the saucer magnolias were blooming, and I thought to myself, "Self, it seems kind of early in the season for such things, isn't it?" So I went and looked up some pictures I took of them →