Animals

Portraits in Play-Doh

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Some pet owners memorialize their beloved pets with photographs, oil paintings, or even taxidermy. In our case, we chose colorful modeling clay. I can’t recall exactly when or how it happened, but at some point more than 20 years ago both the Big Guy and I decided it was necessary to create, in our amateur way, our impressions of our […]

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art

Under the freeway

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Last week I visited the Sacramento History Museum, tucked neatly between the California State Railroad Museum and the Sacramento River at the top of Front Street. One part of the museum I wish I’d had more time to examine was a temporary exhibit called Place and Replace: The Making of Old Sacramento.  While I was growing up in the eastern […]

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art

Honoring the brave

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The California Firefighters Memorial in Capitol Park consists of three parts — a Memorial Wall and two bronze statues. The wall contains the names of more than 13,000 firefighters who died in the line of duty since 1850, when California became a state. While the site was dedicated in 1995, it wasn’t until April 2002 that the memorial was finally unveiled. […]

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architecture

Lines and Angles

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My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week: Lines can either be straight or crooked.  Angles and lines can be connected together which will give us angles.  Sometimes you might just find a lot of angles. Top of the pyramid, San Francisco Golden 1 Center, Sacramento: Bastion stairs, Sutter’s Fort

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