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FacebookAugust 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 →
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 →
Full of light
'Tis the season for senior pictures, so y'all are going to see a few of those in the next week. :-) Let me just say how much fun I had taking these. Taisa is at once quiet and effervescent, and I feel like I managed to catch her being both, and I love the results. In fact, I could only bear →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Living on the Grid
Hey, I got mentioned in today's Sac Bee with regards to my blog post yesterday -- go check it out!! :-) I actually talked to them via phone yesterday for about ten minutes -- the reporter emailed me after seeing my blog post. It's nice to read that article and be reminded that not everyone feels that it's a miserable →
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 →
Reflections: nature’s original Photoshop layer-blending tool
I love reflections. I'm not sure why, but I gravitate toward them a lot when I'm taking pictures. There's just something neat about staring at them and figuring out what's reflected and what's not that's interesting, and I also like how reflected things tend to get distorted (shape and color) to varying degrees depending on the lighting and the reflective →
The Zamboni man can ’cause he mixes it with love and makes the ice skate good
Who can take an ice rink, scrape it a time or two Cover it with warm water and melt the ice into a goo The Zamboni man, oh the Zamboni man The Zamboni man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the ice skate good You've seen "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", right? If you haven't, please go find a copy →
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 →
The Secret Life of Trees
One of these days my bad puns are going to come back to haunt me. But I just can't resist them, no matter how many people roll their eyes and hit the "unsubscribe" button on their RSS reader. (And please don't do that. I'd be very sad to lose a reader over a bad pun... or 50.) In case you missed it, →
Two turntables and a MacBook Pro (December Second Saturday)
Seeing as I had two Moose posts last week, and as how yesterday's post was horse-related, today's Moose post has been pre-empted in favor of something non-equine. Don't get me wrong -- I love what I do. I really really do. I'm blessed to live where I live and have the life that I have. But lately I feel like this →
(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
~ “I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.” ~ Edward Steichen ~ ~ As I've mentioned a number of times on this blog, I'm absolutely in love with the fall color in Sacramento. I grew up in →
Running in the city
. [Today's Moose post will run on Thursday. You'll see why when we get there.] :-) After finishing the whopping 5.9 miles that was the first leg of the CIM relay on Sunday, I decided I'd hang up my running shoes for a couple of weeks and just relax. That resolve lasted about 24 hours, when I walked out my front door →
Lovely day to go for a nice 26.2-mile jaunt with 8000 other people
(Or a 5.9 mile run, or a 7.6 mile run, or... yeah. You get the idea.) I'm still not quite sure why I decided this was a good idea, but a couple of months ago, I randomly decided I should do the California International Marathon relay, so I talked a couple of friends into being on my relay team (one of →
The sun and the rain and the appleseed
The title of this post comes from a table grace I learned backpacking in the Sierras with my church when I was a kid. I may have learned it before then, actually, but I associate it most strongly with backpacking, and I've been known to not just use it as a table grace, but whenever I'm feeling happy and blessed. →
Zoom zoom!!
Back in September, I bought two used lenses from the most wonderful lensrentals.com. I honestly can't plug this company enough -- I've rented from them numerous times, and now I've bought three pieces of equipment from them, and they have fantastic customer service and an excellent-quality product. Anyway, about a week after I bought the lenses from them (they rotate out →
No parking
This is actually a recycled picture. While I can't remember if I've run it on this blog before, it's one that I took about a year and a half ago of a sign on an old garage in an alley a few blocks from my old house. Why the recycle? Because it's the first picture I've sold on Etsy! Go →
November 10 on 10: Daily Grind
So I decided to do 10 on 10 this month, which is a photo challenge where, on the 10th day of each month, you take one picture each hour for ten consecutive hours. I got the idea from Kim's September post, but I opted to skip October because, while it was a weekend, I spent most of the day studying. →
Reflection fun
So on that run a couple of days ago when I took yesterday's pictures, I was crossing back over Tower Bridge when I glanced south and saw the huge backup of traffic coming into downtown Sacramento on Interstate 80. My first thought was, "OMG, SO GLAD I'm not stuck in that!!" My second thought was, "OMG, COOL REFLECTION!!" I have →
A little running music
I know I'm always looking for excuses to cop out of my morning runs, but on a beautiful morning like yesterday, stopping to take pictures wasn't so much an excuse as a necessity. I had my cameraphone with me (acting as a music player and route tracker)as I ran down through Old Sacramento and across the Tower Bridge to Raley →
Anybody got a peanut?
[AKA No more Tower Bridge pictures now, I mean it! And if you don't get the movie reference in the post title, feel free to enquire in the comments.] ;-) I promise that unless something exceptional happens, these will be my last pictures of Tower Bridge for a while. I know, enough with the darn bridge already... like I said, I →