The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of January 27, 2017. Show us something that you’ve recycled or repurposed, or an object for which you’ve discovered a clever new use. Visiting Riverside last December, I enjoyed eating at The Old Spaghetti Factory for the first time. The food was good — but even better were the antique decorations. […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Old and New. You can have old and new objects in the same photo. Or you can have at least one photo of a very old item and one photo of a very new item in your photo. What I am looking for is great contrast. Use your imagination if you want for this […]
For many years I’ve had a vague memory of a small toy I once played with at a neighbor’s house; I seemed to recall long plastic handles with magnets on the end with which you could manipulate small people/figures inside a house. I had no idea what this toy was called or where it came from — and there were plenty […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Houses and/or Barns. This week the topic is Houses and/or Barns. This week I want to see houses of all sorts anything from from a small shack to apartments to mansions. I also am curious where we keep our pets and animals so barns, chicken house, and dog houses are allowed as […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Walks — Indoor or Outdoor. For outdoors you have have paths or trails and consist of dirt, cement, gravel as long as the outdoor walk is a designated for walking only. Indoor walking areas can be hallways, aisles in stores. Make sure all your walking areas are designated for walking, you can’t just show a […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this weeks is Architecture: What types of building appeal to you: Modern Art, Historical, Colonial, Gothic, European, Asian, Commercial, Industrial? Take your pick. do you like? Any building that you like, for any reason is appropriate for this week’s challenge. I’m always fascinated by Victorian-style architecture, and there are plenty of great examples scattered throughout Northern California. Here […]
The Hart Mansion In Sacramento’s Midtown area, in a neighborhood known as Boulevard Park, stands a house that has fascinated me since the very first time I noticed it. It was built in 1907 by Dr. Aden Hart, the founder of one of the local hospitals. I don’t know much about architecture, but apparently the style of this beautiful old house is Colonial Revival with elements of Craftsman. It has details like stained glass windows, fish scale shingles, and a wraparound porch. There is also a carved lion’s head above the entrance to the porch, which is echoed by another (hard to see) at the roof gable. It’s a striking and ornate structure, unique in a part of the city recognized for its Victorian-era houses.