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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 →
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 →
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 →
Bestefar, aka It runs in the family
I wasn't going to do a blog for Thursday or Friday this week, mostly because I'm swamped (almost 13 hours at work yesterday -- whee!) and exhausted. But something that my friend and coworker Kim wrote on her blog got me thinking, and then when I called my dad last night to wish him a happy birthday, we got →
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 →
The Lady of the Tree
For the second time in a bit over a week, I've managed to leave my camera somewhere. I'm not sure how I've managed this... fatigue? Distraction? Really early-onset dementia? Both times, I've realized this when I pull up in front of my apartment and reach over to get my backpack off of the passenger's side floor, and I realize it's →
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 →
Maui Day 3: Oh the weather outside is… pretty nice, actually
On Sunday, while we were sitting at a bus stop at a mall, groggily waiting for our second bus of the day, John observed how odd it was to be hearing Christmas music when it was 80 degrees and humid outside. I laughed then, but when we were out and about today and I heard yet another rendition of "Let →
…and your little dog, too!!
It's after 1:30 AM, I'm tired, I have a ton of pics still to proof from various other things, and my internet is behaving in a manner that's causing me to use obscene gestures in the direction of my router (I haven't taken a picture to add to this set yet, but I'm rapidly moving in that direction), so this →
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 →
Know what’s neat?
A friend of mine who is a children's photographer has remarked many times about just how awesome it is to take pictures for the same families year after year, and get to watch through her lens as the kids grow each year. I haven't been doing this nearly as long as she has, but I've already gotten to see a →
Thanksgiving 2010: warm, dry, and quite well-fed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competing, arranging, roasting, glowing, sparkling, and serving were taken by my cousin Grant -- we swapped cameras for the afternoon and I lent him my 50mm lens, and he did a fantastic job! Thanks Grant!! :-) .
Let’s hop in the time machine and take a ride back to November 2008
Remember those heady days, two whole years ago? Obama had just gotten elected, Ted "Bridge to Nowhere" Stevens lost his Senate seat, AIG got its second bailout while the stock market continued its meltdown, and Somali pirates terrorized the high seas. Ummm, yeah. Good times. Why are we remembering this? On Sunday evening, I lent my laptop to a desperate friend who's →
I’m apologizing in advance to John Lennon and Paul McCartney
I hosed off Moose on Saturday after our ride, then I turned him out to roll (since he likes doing that.) Then I took cameraphone pictures, then I wrote a really bad song parody about it. I blame my friend Tracie for getting Hey Jude stuck in my head. :-) Hey Moose (sung to the tune of "Hey Jude", by the →
Yesterday was a beautiful day for some portraits!
Yesterday afternoon I hopped on my bike and headed down to Old Sacramento to take some pictures of my coworker Mila and her family. You may remember (well, probably not, but I had to say it) that I took a few pictures of Mila and her daughter last month, but it was just two of them, and it wasn't anything →
Baby smooches
Yesterday at work, one of my coworkers who is out on maternity leave stopped by with her six-week-old son to say hi to everyone. I happened to have my camera with me (I've gotten into the habit lately of dragging it just about everywhere with me) so I popped upstairs to where she was chatting with some people to snap →
Midday coffee break
Ok, so I don't actually drink coffee (except for the occasional frappucino, but I don't think those really qualify as coffee) and I don't usually take a midday break, but yesterday I made an exception. I had a small project to do at work that involved my camera (more on that in another post) so I'd already had it with →
Party in a garage
Another pic from Second Saturday this past weekend.
This turned out to be a more interesting evening than I’d thought it would be
So here I was, just beginning to write a quick blog post with a picture from tonight's Second Saturday walk around midtown Sacramento, when I heard 8 shots fired in a row. I looked up and said, "Gunshots." Without looking up, John responded, "Firecrackers." Then 4 more shots. Nope, gunshots. Turns out four people got shot the next block over →