August 28, 2019 at 7:49 pm (Links, Lists, Places)
Tags: California, Events, festivals, Palo Alto, Redwood City, summer, weekends
Self loves whenever viveka of my guilty pleasures posts for a new photo challenge.
Yesterday she posted on Tuesday Photo Challenge’s prompt: CITY. She has pictures of Chicago, Seattle, Hong Kong, Stockholm, and several others.
Self took the picture below last Saturday, during the Palo Alto Art & Wine Festival.
Here’s a picture of Courthouse Square in self’s very own Redwood City:
Friday, Just before an evening concert, July 2019
Self gave a reading at Philippine Expressions in Long Beach in March 2018. The naval yards are huge. This is the marina at sunset. I have never seen so many boats gathered in one place, virtually stretching to the horizon. My feeling was awe:
Long Beach, California, March 2018
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October 27, 2018 at 10:34 am (Books, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, plans, Recommended)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, book lists, Ireland, novel, reading lists, Saturday, science fiction, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, weekends
Ordered this last week. Can’t wait to start reading.
But first, self has to get through:
- Jade City, by Fonda Lee (on the last 100 pages; so far: five stars)
- Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz
- All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
- Dead Letters, by Caite Dolan-Leach
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 29, 2018 at 4:46 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Niece, Places, Relatives)
Tags: Cee Neuner, desserts, San Francisco, Saturday, weekends
Another Cee Neuner Fun Foto Challenge! For the next few weeks, Cee asks us to take inspiration from a photograph. Here is the photograph for Week 3.
Self got to spend time in the City yesterday. She was with her niece Angela, who introduced self to the wonder of Tea Bear Café, whose walls were either real or synthetic wood. And self has no idea what the dice were meant to represent:
Saturday, 28 July 2018: Tea Bear Café, San Francisco Chinatown
And there’s an adorable picture of the bear in Tea Bear!
The Bear Has Its Close-up
And here’s the view just outside the café: Washington Park, where a Chinese dance performance was happening.
Washington Square, Chinatown, San Francisco
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 7, 2018 at 3:25 pm (Holidays, television)
Tags: Events, FIFA, humor, Redwood City, Saturday, Twitter, weekends
The goalkeeper Pickford just made a grrreat save.
England up 2 – 0.
According to this theory self saw on Twitter (lol), England will win because it has seven letters in its name, and the game’s being played on the seventh.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 20, 2018 at 4:09 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, Weather)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Events, exhibits, Garden, museum, Redwood City, San Francisco, Saturday, summer, weekends
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is: Horizontal Line(s). Self browsed through her photos and found these from Saturday, 16 June.
Went to the City to see the Rube Goldberg exhibit.
Lobby, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
Afterwards, self chilled in the backyard. It was a beautiful day!
Backyard, Redwood City
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March 24, 2018 at 12:03 am (Flowers, Places, plans, postaday)
Tags: Events, Fridays, Garden, happiness, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, seasons, weekends, Wordpress
Cares do not exist in a garden.
Euphorbia, 23 March 2018
Viburnum, early March 2018
Japanese anemone, early March 2018
Home for the weekend.
Redwood City March For Our Lives will be a big one. Tomorrow, 1 p.m.
Stay tuned.
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March 3, 2018 at 7:26 pm (Flowers, Places, postaday)
Tags: Garden, happiness, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Saturday, weekends, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Stepping into her garden is like stepping into another world.
There are six steps from the back door to the ground. Self took the first picture standing on the top step.
The garden is rectangular in shape. To the left is a small courtyard that she bricked over, about 20 years ago. She used to have an apple tree there. It died. She used to have geraniums and camellias. All gone. There is one wee clematis that she remembers planting three years ago. A few weeks ago, it started to put out green shoots. Every day since then, it has put out more and more leaves.
Backyard, 2 March 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 3, 2018 at 10:56 pm (Lists, Wall Street Journal)
Tags: news, Olympics, Saturday, weekends
Top Headline: Memo Fuels Fight on Russia Probe
Graph: Markets Shudder on Inflation Signs
Other Page 1:
- Fed Orders Wells Fargo to Change Board
- Ice Dancing Has a Problem: There Aren’t Enough Men
- Nigeria Brought Back Its Girls; Now Comes the Hard Part
Such a moment we are all living in.
Stay tuned.
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January 25, 2018 at 2:38 am (Artists and Writers, Conversations, destinations, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: artists residency, California, inspiration, Mendocino, teaching, weekends, writing process
“You said on the phone the other day that you’re a teacher?”
“Yes.”
“What subject do you teach?”
“Everything, pretty much.”
— Exotics, by Callan Wink (Granta 128, Summer 2014)
This coming weekend, self is teaching.
A two-day writing workshop on just one subject: Landscapes.
Students will try their hand at writing only one thing: landscapes, both real and invented.
You do not need to be a tested writer, only a writer who is willing to be tested.
Thank you, Mendocino Art Center, for allowing self this opportunity.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
- A journey is more than just a movement through physical space. It is also movement through an emotional landscape. This writing workshop will be about journeys, both real and imagined: journeys of retrieval and nostalgia, as well as journeys of discovery. We’ll map emotions, moods, as well as physical space. We’ll do it all by sitting in one physical space. I’ll share my process with you. I’ll show you how.
Albion, California: January 2017
Stay tuned.
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January 15, 2017 at 4:59 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, weekends, Wordpress
- Things like light, temperature, smell, sound, and sometimes taste, all work together to create ambience.
— Jeff Golenski, The Daily Post
Back in Mendocino for Second Saturday, which was last night. Self didn’t get much sleep the night before, so the last 60 miles to the coast were harrowing. But she made it!
Mendocino Hotel, Main Street, Mendocino
Winter Fog, Mendocino This Morning
Water Tower, Albion Street, Mendocino Village
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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