Coloma sawmill
Textures
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Textures. These were some of the many pieces I found at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
Crocker Museum: Chinese tomb figures
Lines
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Lines. I shot these photos at the Lakeport Historic Courthouse Museum last May. It really wasn’t all that long ago that a similar setup to this switchboard was state of the art in telephone communications! The operator controlled the lines and connected people to the numbers they wanted to reach. […]
Circles, Curves, and Arches
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Circles, Curves, and Arches.
Views from the tower
I’m always up for a great tower view, and the Harmon Observation Tower, part of the de Young Museum in San Francisco, was completely new to me. While admission to the museum itself is not free, tower access costs nothing — all the more reason to check out the scenery of San Francisco from eight stories up.
In the mansion
The Crocker in downtown Sacramento is the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River, founded in 1885. Although it now has a large modern building, the original mansion is still very much a part of the museum — and probably still my favorite part.
Side of things
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Squares and rectangles
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Rectangles and Squares.