It’s been a while since self joined a Monday Windows Challenge. Don’t know why, she loves windows. Loves, loves, loves.
These windows are all from the Crocker Art Museum in Sacrameno. She went on a road trip last year, in March. The minute Gov. Newsom lifted the covid lockdown, she took off. What a joy to be someplace different! Crocker Art Museum is one of the coolest California museums.
Be creative if you feel like it, and have fun with this challenge this week. Remember your photos needs to be black and white, desaturated, sepia (brown tones) or selective color. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all come up.
— Cee neuner, CBWC
Becky, host of the Squares Challenge, has a fantastic photo of a fig tree seemingly bursting out of a window!
Self’s SquareOdds today are museum objects.
Can anyone guess what these are?
The first is a bronze from the Crocker Museum in Sacramento.
The second is a relic from Pompeii, seen at the Last Supper in Pompeii exhibit at the Legion of Honor.
Points to anyone who guesses correctly!
February’s Squares Challenge is ODD.
Thank you to Becky at Life of B for dreaming up the fabulous Squares Challenge. Today, she features a puzzling feature of Portuguese villages in the Algarvian hills.
A year ago, self’s neighbors across the street took off for Seattle, almost as soon as the Governor lifted travel restrictions. Infected by their energy, self undertook a road trip of her own, though hers was much less ambitious. The Crocker Museum in Sacramento was re-opening! Therefore, self determined to be there for the opening.
She found an Airbnb that was in a converted Chinese laundry. In fact, here’s the neon sign hanging outside the structure. The sign is protected by the Sacramento historical association. It has to remain up, forever.
Another thing about the Airbnb: there was only one other guest, and she was Filipina! What are the odds? At night, the owner’s two French pugs would go scrambling around the living room. They are apparently celebrities on Instagram, with upwards of 10k followers.
Dogs on Instagram, Airbnb in Chinese laundry: Sacramento is an interesting place!
It was the perfect place to kick off a year of road trips, all over California.
Stay tuned.
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,
She can barely post or think straight, she’s just so sad about the San Jose VTA shootings. Nine innocent people died.
Blogging is a distraction on this very, very sad day. The loss of life, so unnecessary. Each individual was a good person, a good worker.
If someone doesn’t like his job, can’t he just quit. Isn’t that an option.
This afternoon, self decides to try Cee’s Black and White Challenge. There’s an additional theme: Five.
The host is Cee Neuner, who also hosts many of self’s favorite challenges: Flower of the Day, Fun Fridays, etc
First, a picture that was one of her favorites, with deep reds and purples, that she turned sepia for this challenge. There are five blooms. (Oh no, she just saw a little one in the corner. EEEK! She fiddled with it so long that she’ll go ahead and post):
Next, this picture didn’t need any re-touching. The ceiling fan of her Airbnb during her recent trip to Sacramento. The fan has five rotor blades. YES!:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
It is so much fun joining photo challenges. Here’s another one, from the blog Travel With Intent: the One Word Sunday Challenge.
As this week’s challenge is POINT, self went happily through her archives to look for different examples of pointing.
Below, an Indonesian Bis Pole in the lobby of the Crocker in Sacramento. These poles are carved to resemble humans or animals. Self thinks the profile belongs to a horse.
Another from the Crocker Museum! This one’s called Harbor Seal (Bronze, by Beniamino Bufano, American, 1898 – 1970)
Final image from the Crocker: David Ligare’s Landscape with an Archer (oil on canvas), showing an archer shooting an arrow into the sky.
scillagrace is the host for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
The theme is GETTING TO KNOW YOU.
Here’s how scillagrace explains it:
There are so many wonderful examples of Getting to Know You on her blog.
Here are self’s. (Coming clean: These pictures were actually taken, not by self, but by her Airbnb host in Sacramento. Self tried, but her photos were blurry, as these two were in constant motion. Her host very kindly took self’s cell and took these really GREAT pictures. The pets are Coco and Pi. On Instagram, they have close to 9000 followers!)
Coco and Pi were such a delight. It’s been a long time since self’s had a pet. For about 15 years, she had two beagles, Bella and Gracie. They passed ages ago. And now self travels a lot more, so she worries that she can’t give any pets the attention/love they deserve.
Anyhoo, Coco and Pi are the best of friends, as you can see:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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)
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:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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