About a month ago I shared the first bunch of images from the Hicks album (Week 6) featuring wildflowers shot in late April of 2010; I don’t know the precise location, but Solano County is a pretty good guess, given the landscape and the fact that Mount Diablo is visible in several shots. In that previous post, I mentioned that […]
One final look inside the Gladding McBean factory during Feats of Clay XXIII, March 2010.
The Gladding McBean company has a long and fascinating history. Over many decades of the factory’s existence, their artists have created miles of clay sewer pipe, tons of decorative tableware, and countless pieces of architectural ornamentation in terra cotta. To walk through the factory even today is to discover bits and pieces of history lying about in every room.
As the Small Feats of Clay exhibit continues in Loomis during the month of March, here are a few more images from Feats of Clay XXIII, located at the Gladding McBean terra cotta factory in 2010.
For 24 years, the juried international ceramics art show known as Feats of Clay arrived every March inside the Gladding McBean terra cotta factory in Lincoln, California. Things changed in 2012, however; the event disappeared, and when it returned in 2013, it had a new organizer, a new location, and a new name: America’s ClayFest. For 2022, the month-long art […]
This week’s photos may not zoom in on the beautiful spring wildflowers as much as I might like, but they were good enough to start me really wishing I knew where they were taken — I’d love to go there myself and seek out the purple and white Spotted downingia. I was also dearly hoping the location hasn’t changed in […]
Yes, (in case it slipped your mind) today is Valentine’s Day! We don’t do a whole lot to celebrate it in our house these days, but some people get great enjoyment from decorations, lots of hearts, plush animals, and maybe a box of chocolates. I couldn’t resist sharing some of the Valentine’s Day 2010 photos in the album, and I’ve […]
I’m a sucker for waterfalls and rapids, to the point where I’ll sometimes spend half my time on a hike trying to capture good shots of foaming water. So this week from the album I’m sharing pictures of fast-flowing streams, most of them shot near Ophir, California, in the spring of 2010. Perfect focus may be lacking in some of […]
I don’t really know anything about the Sacramento Valley Garden Railway group, but building a model railroad in the back yard seems like a wonderful hobby! You may recall seeing The Fairplex Garden Train in an episode of Huell Howser’s Visiting which I featured back in October 2020. Don’t forget to click on the images below for a closer look […]