April 20, 2021 at 4:07 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Mondays, museums, art, Sacramento, spring
Tomorrow morning, early, self is headed to the de Young to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit. Finally, finally.
Because she’ll probably be out the whole day, she’s posting tomorrow’s Bright Square early. Thank you to Becky at The Life of B for hosting this challenge!
More pictures from the Crocker Museum in Sacramento! The huge painting is Landscape with an Archer, by David Ligare (American, born 1945)
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April 19, 2021 at 9:43 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: London, Mondays, Sacramento
The host of the Friday Fun Challenge is aroused. Her theme for the week is COLOURS.
Self’s gallery are mostly reds, and one blue:
- 2 from London (a Beltane van and a close-up of the London Eye, May 2019)
- 2 from Sacramento (the camera and the street sign)
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April 19, 2021 at 5:28 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Sundays, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: restaurants, Sacramento, weekends
Becky’s post on BRIGHT SQUARES (She’s the host of this challenge, which is truly a lot of fun) is something really BRIGHT and really SPARKLY and it’s something Becky saw in the British Museum. Feel free to gape.
Self spent the weekend in Sacramento. It’s a city she’s always felt at home in, not sure why. Sometimes it feels like Bacolod (in the central Philippines), sometimes it feels like San Luis Obispo. Kids come whizzing down the street on skateboards, and they all go to the same boba place, which as luck would have it is on the same block as her Airbnb.
Her host acquired this 1920s building that used to be a FAMILY LAUNDRY and the neon sign is protected by the City as a historical landmark (though only the bottom half is lit).
Across the street is a Mexican restaurant (the street is otherwise mostly Asian) that’s open 24 hours. Sorry for the blur, self didn’t have a place to rest her elbow for the shot, which took long exposure. Next to the Mexican restaurant is a martial arts school.
Sacramento is an old city, but in the neighborhood she’s in, everyone is young. Not like back home, where you’re either old or pushing a stroller. Or driving a humongous SUV.
Her car is parked directly across the street. A handful of times in the last few hours, someone’s car alarm has been going off. At first, self wondered if it was her car. But it wasn’t.
Back home, she’s just started seeing, around the library, the teens wearing all-black: black T-s, black baggy pants. They were a regular sight before. Then, the library shut down and these teens seemed to disappear. A sure sign that we’re opening again is that self spotted a pair of these black-wearing teens, walking along Middlefield. What did they do with themselves when everything was shut down? Here they are again; feels like old times.
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April 18, 2021 at 9:27 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Movies, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: adaptations, art, exhibits, lunch, museums, Oscars, Sacramento
For today’s BRIGHT SQUARES Challenge, self took pictures at the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento! Which is just as fabulous as she remembered it being, all those years ago (Then, she was lucky enough to catch a Norman Rockwell retrospective)
(Left to Right):
- Dale Chihuly (almost identical to the one that hangs in the lobby of London’s V & A)
- Portrait of the playwright, screenwriter and diarist Christopher Isherwood, by Don Bachardy, American (born 1934). Isherwood wrote the 1964 novel A Simple Man; the movie adaptation won Colin Firth an Oscar.
- Pacific Ocean, a painting by Jennifer Bartlett, American (born 1941)
What a great museum. Self is so happy she returned to Sacramento for this brief visit. If only the café had been open, she’d happily have lingered the whole day.
For lunch, she stopped at this small pop-up on 16th. The metal chairs had been baking in the sun, which she did not think mattered until she actually sat down. A lady who was sitting at the same table smirked and said, “That’s why I avoided sitting on those.” I took a chair that was sitting in the shade, a bit closer to the lady, and she immediately said, “I’ve had my two shots, don’t worry.”
The lady also told self that there was a “Chinse supermarket” not half a block from where we were sitting, and self got very excited at the thought of loading up on goodies for back home.
In addition to tacos, the pop-up also sold, somewhat improbably, mac’n cheese, and since it’s been forever since she’s had mac’n cheese, she decided to try it. It was good!
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April 17, 2021 at 11:17 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: inspiration, museums, Sacramento, Saturday, weekends
Self hasn’t missed a day yet! Yesterday, she had this BRIGHT IDEA.
Here’s her entry for The Life of B’s April BrightSquare challenge.
Airbnb, Restored 1920s Chinese Laundry, Sacramento:
Drove here to see the Crocker Museum, which just re-opened.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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April 16, 2021 at 7:31 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, plans, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Weather)
Tags: art, exhibits, Golden Gate Park, happiness, museums, San Francisco
This is today’s BRIGHT SQUARE. Thanks to Becky at The Life of B for the challenge!
A few days ago, self met her friend Caroline at the de Young in Golden Gate Park. What a BRIGHT BRIGHT DAY. Museums are open again!
Lots of squares in the lines of the building, and on the pavement. The ferris wheel is a new thing. Wasn’t here last year! She likes it.
So HAPPYYYYYY!
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April 15, 2021 at 6:43 pm (destinations, Flowers, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Garden, Palo Alto, spring
And here we are, halfway through April! How time flies.
I’ve been wanting to post this picture for Becky’s April Squares challenge theme of ‘Bright,’ for a long while. They’re from a March visit to Gamble Garden Center in Palo Alto. I don’t know what they are — daffodils? I’ve never seen anything like them before.
See more Bright Square galleries here.
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April 11, 2021 at 3:41 pm (Books, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Women Writers)
Tags: COVID Reading, nonfiction, reading lists, Redwood City
The Squares Challenge is fun, fun, fun, fun. Read more about it from the host, Becky at The Life of B.
For the month of April, the challenge is to post BRIGHT Squares.
These are a few more library pictures from yesterday, and a picture of one of the books self checked out:
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April 11, 2021 at 2:41 am (Places, Movies, Recommended, Surprises, destinations)
Tags: blockbusters, COVID watching, performances, Saturdays, science fiction
At the Century 20.
Self liked Voyagers more than Godzilla v. Kong.
Although, Godzilla v. Kong was the first time in forever — mebbe the first time since Road Warrior‘s Feral Kid — that she didn’t find the kid in an action movie annoying, i.e. not just a gratuitous presence. And who knew Rebecca Hall would be good in an action movie? Well, she is. Not that she’s required to do any action scenes, really. But in this type of movie, character takes a back seat to . . . scenario. And she’s able to calibrate her performance so that it’s just the right temperature for this kind of movie.
That is all.
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April 11, 2021 at 12:57 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday)
Tags: art, blogs, Gardens, inspiration, Redwood City, Saturday, spring
For today’s BRIGHT SQUARES (See more about this photo challenge, hosted by Becky on her blog, The Life of B), self went to her local library and took pictures of the murals painted on the kiosk next to the main entrance (where there are/were vending machines). They’re giving out lettuce and basil seeds — you pick!. There’s a reflection of me on the glass, taking pictures, LOL!
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