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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 →
Help me pick a 2010 picture of the year!
I meant to post this on Saturday, but I ended up posting those fireworks pictures instead, because I liked how they turned out. So here is my second and last "year in review" post --help me pick a "best picture of 2010" shot by posting in the comments with the number of the one you like. :-) Here's a link →
Maui Day 6: Going home
So as I write this, I'm actually already home and it's Sunday night -- we got home late Christmas Eve (Friday) after a quite uncrowded flight home. Nothing says awesome like an exit row all to yourself. Two, in fact -- John took one and I took one, and we both stretched out and slept. Now that's an awesome plane →
Hey, it’s spring in the southern hemisphere…
Still working on clearing the aforementioned backlog of pictures. Baby steps, people -- baby steps. The other day at work during a meeting I may or may not have sorted through and culled some of the 8GB of pictures I took at graduation last June. When I'm done with those, the next stop is my summer trip pictures, and then, →
They don’t make ‘em like this anymore
Dusk is my favorite time to photograph neon -- moreso than complete dark. The colors are just as vivid, but there's less of that sharp contrast (and therefore glare) between the dark sky and the bright light. I live about eight blocks from the Esquire Theatre, a movie theater that opened in 1940 and was converted to an IMAX theater in →
Doorway full of sky
I know my content has been kind of light these past few days -- it's been REALLY busy around here, and I'm in the middle of several things at the moment. I'll get back to real posting hopefully in the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here's another one from the depths of the archives -- this one →
Sunrise and sunset are my two favorite times of day.
(Sorry about the Facebook "Like" buttons appearing at the top and bottom of each post -- I haven't figured out how to just get them to stay on the top of the post yet. I'll worry about it when I get home.) :-) Changing light at the Cologne Cathedral, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. Click on the picture to view a larger →
Euro Trip Day 40: Getting to indulge my love of Gothic cathedrals AND geology, all in the same day!
AKA, Why I'm the biggest nerd EVER. :-) On Wednesday we headed up to Prague Castle to check out St. Vitus Cathedral, a HUGE Gothic cathedral. Now, I've known since my freshman year of high school in Spanish class, when we learned about Santiago de Compostela in Spain, that I've been fascinated by cathedral architecture. But if I've learned one thing →
Euro Trip Day 27: Anyone know what flavor “Smurf” is?
Yesterday we slept in... we've been doing that a lot on this trip, oddly enough. I think yesterday I was tired because a horde of angry mosquitoes woke me up at 3AM. Well, the mosquitoes didn't wake me up so much as the violent itching. Have I mentioned that I don't think I've seen a single window screen the entire time →
Euro Trip Day 23: Sarajevo to Zagreb
This post is coming a bit late because it seems like our internet access always seems to die on us in the evening, which is when I'd prefer to be sitting around working on things like reservations for upcoming cities and blog posts and the like. In any case, most Zagreb museums are closed on Mondays, for some reason (we →
Euro Trip Day 21: A depressing historical post (with past and present pictures)
I'm warning you in advance that this is going to be a depressing post, so don't be leaving comments that this made you want to go eat a pint of Ben and Jerry's or something. Sorry, my lame attempt at humor here. With today's post, I'm going to post some before and after pictures of the way stuff was and the →
Euro Trip Day 9: In which we get to Korčula and I wonder why we didn’t just go straight here
(Side note -- the island's name is actually pronounced "KOR-chula" -- the č in Croatian is a ch sound.) So today I discovered one of the little problems with traveling and not really having a set schedule... one forgets what day it is fairly easily. This morning I woke up gradually shortly after 8, as the sound of jackhammers infiltrated →
Euro Trip Day 6: A lovely lazy day.
I used to not be so Type A. I used to be much more unscheduled and willing to fly by the seat of my pants. I'm not sure when this changed, but somewhere along the line I decided I needed to have everything planned, and now when I don't have a plan or things don't go according to plan, I →
Euro Trip Day 5: This is where I’ve wanted to be for MONTHS
Before I start my post, I have to say one thing: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! :-) Ok, moving on. :-) This is part of the old city wall in Dubrovnik, southern Croatia. It's ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, and, unlike Dublin, there's stuff to do after about 5:30 PM that doesn't involve spending money. And the weather is considerably more beautiful. Just before we took →
Euro Trip Day 4: See that “no photography” sign? I’m pretending I didn’t.
Let me preface this post by saying that I don't expect everyone to have a huge level of technical expertise when it comes to photography. I really don't. Honest. But for the love of pete, if you don't learn ANYTHING else about how to operate your camera, PLEASE PLEASE learn how to shut off the flash. Please. I do realize that →
Euro Trip Day 3: Swimming through Dublin
It was just a *tad* wet today. Just a bit. Stupid weather report said yesterday that it was going to be partly cloudy today... I think he was talking about Dublin, CA, 'cause there weren't no "partly" about today. It flipping POURED. Anyway. So I slept really poorly last night, and finally fell back asleep around 9 (when we should have →
Euro Trip Day 2: Where we got to Dublin, got lost, and went to church
I probably should mention that I'll be posting most of these daily picture posts from my cameraphone. Of course I have my regular camera... it's just that it's infinitely more convenient to post from my phone than having to dig out my laptop, hook up my camera, copy over all the pictures, find which one I want to post, convert →
Quintessence of a spring evening in Sacramento
. Scenes from tonight's run First Capitol lap Kids in identical t-shirts Racing on the lawn Taking pictures of the dome Castle and children vivid gold in the setting sun. Second lap Kids herded to their bus Waiting at my end of the block. A few bolted to it I sprinted toward them We slapped hands as we passed Laughing in the gloaming ether Faces luminous in the fading light. What a piece of work →
Scenes from a run
I finally decided a couple of weeks ago to get off my lazy behind and start running again. It's been far too long, and I really don't have an excuse not to. And I can't wuss out after a week, since Darryl goaded me into doing the Race for the Cure on May 8th. I always forget how good I →
Reflection on the outside of the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco
Reflection on the outside of the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. Today we went to San Francisco to see the King Tut exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park, then we met up with Carrye and Aron for dinner in Half Moon Bay. Such a nice day! :-) .
Italy Day 5: Naples, er, Rome
Day 5, Thanksgiving, dawned quite a bit earlier than any of us had planned. I woke up around 3:30 and discovered that John had quietly been getting sick since before midnight. I gave him some Tylenol I'd brought (as he had a fever) and some saltines, but without getting too graphic, he was no better at keeping those down than →
Here's the rest of those Gladding, McBean pictures
I know that the company is called Gladding, McBean, but I still feel rather awkward and ungrammatically-correct putting that comma in there. Anyway, here are a few more GMB pics--as always, check out the rest on my Flickr gallery. . . . . . .
Gladding, McBean Factory in Lincoln, CA
OK, so I've been sitting on these pictures since, er, May. I've been meaning to get around to processing them, and it just fell down the list. Anyway, back in May, I went on a photography tour of the Gladding, McBean factory in Lincoln, CA (about 30 miles or so from me.) The tour was set early in the day, so →
Wide angle fun, day 4: Haunted house
Last Halloween I was wandering around town looking for Halloween-themed pictures for an October photo challenge when I stumbled upon a really creepy-looking house several blocks from where I live. I snapped some pictures which I posted to my Flickr but later decided not to use, but then I promptly forgot about it until a few weeks ago, when I →