February 2024

“There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.” — Gertrude Jekyll

Rapid Fire Movie Reviews

You clicked on it. You know what you’ve gotten yourself into by doing so. I’m cleaning out my photo roll and noticed I had screenshot more than a few titles; the time for fleshed out full reviews has passed. Sorry. It is what it is. You’re getting whatever this is instead. Let’s go. This is […]

November 2023

“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.” — Cynthia Rylant

The Crocker Art Museum & Sacramento 2023

“And I’d do it again.” — Aimeé Crocker

October 2023

“October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” — Keith Donohue

Paranormal Cirque II 2023

“The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.” — Laura Lam

September 2023

“As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.” — Peggy Toney Horton

August 2023

“August was smoking hot, then September walked in as cool as a cucumber, and made her presence felt.” — Charmaine J Forde

World Watercolor Month 2023

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Willem Van Gogh

The Missing Pages – April, May, & June

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald