A visit to Ancil Hoffman Park

I made a quick trip to Ancil Hoffman Park the other day — the first time I’d been there in about 30 years, even though it’s a mere 30 minutes away from my house (allowing for traffic on surface streets). The park sits alongside the American River and contains nearly 400 acres of protected land in the middle of suburban […]

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Meet me at the station

Last week I went back for another visit to the California State Railroad Museum, hoping to improve on some of the images I shot on my first visit. I’ve struggled with the light conditions; in general the rooms are very dark, but the shadows are punctuated by bright spotlights in the ceiling and daylight coming from large windows at either […]

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Orangevale rocks again

A couple of weeks ago I posted images of a small decorated stone I found on one of my walks through my neighborhood; that was the first time I realized this is a fun thing some groups of people have started doing, often leaving inspirational messages painted on the back of these painted rocks. So when I spotted another brightly […]

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