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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 →
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 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 →
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 →
Green eyes, great light
Sometimes when things go wrong, it can actually make them go really, really right. For these pictures, I'd planned to meet up with Amanda an hour earlier in the day, and we were going to go downtown to my favorite spot with some balloons. However, I got stuck at a horse show, and by the time I got out of there, →
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 →
Tomb of the Unknowns
I took this picture during the sunset changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery, a couple of years ago when I went to Washington, D.C. As that trip was before I started blogging, I'm pretty sure I never posted it here. It's a good one for Memorial Day. For all of you who serve and who have served, including my →
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 →
Singapore Day 1, Part 2: Pictures that didn’t make the 10 on 10 cut but I wanted to blog a bit about anyway
This is day 2 of being wide awake at 5AM. I can't blame anyone for snoring this time... I just couldn't sleep. Oh well -- in a couple of hours I'll be catching a bus to Malacca, Malaysia, and it's a 4 hour ride, so I can sleep then if I feel the need. So instead of working on my grad →
Singapore Trip Day 1: May 10 on 10, Singapore edition
Since this seems as good a place to pitch it as any (don't think I've mentioned it on here before) go vote for me for Best Local Blogger in the A-List competition on one of our local news stations. :-) I know I won't win, but it'd be fun to get some points on the board at least... ;-) Ok, so →
I’m getting back into the swing of things. The Giants, on the other hand…
This past Saturday, I (a Canon fan) went with to AT&T Park to watch the Giants play the Braves. We sat in the was pitching for the Giants, and I was having In fact, there are even more pictures here (since I couldn't fit them all into this post.) My 70-200 lens is awesome. Not only is it but it's also able to Unfortunately, This →
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 →
That new baby smell
This is the longest break I've taken from blogging since I got back from my trip this past summer and jumped into the school year and grad school and was frankly, too depressed about being back from my trip to blog. That was weird -- I've heard of people getting post-vacation depression, but it'd never happened to me because I →
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 →
Redhead
I'm really, REALLY behind on post-processing right now. I don't actually do that much to the pictures I take. I shoot in RAW, and then I dump them in Canon Digital Photo Pro (yeah, I really need to switch to Lightroom -- figuring that out is on my list for this summer) and tweak mostly for white balance and sometimes contrast →
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 →
Dear Forbes. Stuff it.
Dear Forbes Magazine, Last week you published your annual ranking of "America's Most Miserable Cities." I somehow missed reading about it until a couple of days ago (probably had something to do with the flu-induced delirium I was in most of the week) but ever since I read it and saw that Sacramento was ranked American's Fifth Most Miserable City, I've →
Euro Trip Redux: Croatian weddings
I've been sick since Monday, which is why I've only had one post this week so far. Kaiser seems to think I have the flu, and given the absolute misery I've been in, I'm inclined to agree with them. So here's my PSA for all of you today--GO GET YOUR FLU SHOT IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. I don't know that →
My newest baby (don’t worry Mom, it’s not another horse)
This baby is digital, and I'm proud to say that after many many hours of labor, the new Horses, Hope & Healing website is fully operational! I started work on it over Christmas break, but if it weren't for Joel! and Ting, I'd probably be in a crying heap on the floor -- they came through early yesterday morning and →