Blogging the hard way
Linotype machine:
All Things Farm Related
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week — all the images are from my recent visit to the Sacramento History Museum: Farms can lead to many things in my mind and I sure you all have a view of what a farm is. You can have something as simple as a pitch fork, so the view […]
G is for…
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Letter G – Needs to have the letter G. You can always use adjectives and adverbs with a specific topic just make sure you give us the word that fits the requirements of this challenge. Golden poppy: Portrait of California Governor Jerry Brown at the State Capitol: Rice grinder, Sacramento […]
In the line of duty
The California Police Officers’ Memorial was unveiled on the Capitol Mall in May 1988.
Underground history
Under the freeway
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 […]
Honoring the brave
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. […]
Little known farming hazards
