July 5, 2021 at 5:05 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Lists, postaday)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, Dublin, Ireland, Irish artists, Mondays, museums, photo challenge, Stanford
For her second post on the PPAC Photo Challenge, co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao, self would like to focus on metal outdoor sculptures.
Here are three examples, from three different places:
July 2, 2021 at 4:34 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: art, blogs, environment, Fridays, inspiration, museums, nature, photo challenge, San Francisco, summer
Thanks to The Life of B for the #TreeSquare Challenge!
Self’s first post for the challenge are the trees of Land’s End, San Francisco, just outside the Legion of Honor. She visited the museum in June. (The trees are in the background, not the focal point, sorry)
These coastal California cypresses have endured wind and fog for many years — even, centuries. Hopefully, they will endure for centuries more!
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
June 22, 2021 at 12:23 am (destinations, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, favorites, memories, Mondays, museums, Sacramento
Self loves this photo challenge. It’s hosted by Jude on the blog Travel Words.
For today’s post, self returns to the always-amazing Sacramento, a city who she visited in April, just in time for the re-opening of the Crocker Museum.
Self stayed in a re-furbished building that had once been the site of a Family Laundry, on 16th Street (There’s a neon sign hanging outside the building with these very words).
Here’s the kitchen:
And here was the karate school, directly across the street:
The lobby of the Crocker is all white and silver:
That was self’s first post-pandemic road trip. Sacramento will always have a special place in her heart. She stayed there for several weeks, the summer of 2017, in the sweetest little in-law unit which her Airbnb hosts had built themselves. (Alas, the hosts seem to have taken their property off Airbnb. She went searching for it, a few weeks ago.)
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe,
May 31, 2021 at 4:51 pm (Artists and Writers, Holidays, Links, postaday)
Tags: A Photo a Week, art, California, Golden Gate Park, Mondays, museums, Nancy Merrill, San Francisco
Today’s challenge is from Nancy Merrill: A Photo a Week.
This week’s challenge is Circles on Circles.
Here’s a standing lamp in her living room.
Here’s the roof of the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. The gorgeous building was by Renzo Piano. Self took this picture from the Rainforest. She remembers there were so many butterflies (not one of which was captured by her camera, boo).
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
May 20, 2021 at 8:12 pm (destinations, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: France, memories, museums, Paris, spring
YAY! Self is joining another Thursday Trios Challenge!
Lately, self has been reminiscing a lot about Paris.
Not that she’s thinking of making that her next trip, necessarily. But she was there in 2017, right after the Former Guy pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords, and all of Paris was agog.
In retrospect, that was a peaceful time.
Here are some trios from that trip: The first two are from the park next to the Musée de l’Orangerie. The last picture is from Fontainbleau.
May 2, 2021 at 6:05 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, postaday, Sundays, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, London, museums, spring
Find and ye shall seek.
When self goes looking for trios, she usually finds some in her archives.
Thanks Mama Cormier, for hosting the Thursday Trios challenge!
First picture is of a three-panel screen she found in World Market. Turned out to be made in the Philippines.
Second is the lobby of the V & A. What a stunner the Chihuly is, dangling from the ceiling. This picture dates from May 2019.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
April 26, 2021 at 2:57 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, museums, Sacramento, spring, weekends
April is almost over! Every day, when self thinks she’s used up all the Bright Squares subjects she can think of, she goes to The Life of B, host of the Squares Challenge, and finds new inspiration.
These are from her recent trip to Sacramento (FABULOUS city)
April 20, 2021 at 4:07 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, Mondays, museums, 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)
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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):
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!
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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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