Singing hits like “Big, Big Love,” popular and very upbeat singer Michael Franti brought his show to Sacramento in September. One of the last two closing acts of the Farm-to-Fork free Street Festival, Franti is originally from nearby Davis, California. In fact, possibly the most touching part of the show was when Franti pointed out his mother. She was unassumedly hanging out in the front side of the crowd. Franti talked about how she, as a white woman, had adopted […]
SACRAMENTO, CA, U.S.A. – OCTOBER 9, 2021 On Saturday, October 9, 2021 Sacramento celebrated National Trans Visibility Day at Crocker Park. The first-ever event included a march around the park and a program with a variety of community leaders, activists and organizers. Why Sacramento? For the first time since the March started in 2019, the event was held outside of Washington D.C. The organization chose Orlando as the primary host city this year, but also added several satellite cities. Those […]
Happy Valentines Day 2021 to lovers everywhere! Hereʻs an image I took on the South Bank of London on the Thames a few years back. They appeared to be a middle-aged couple taking in the beauty of the summer evening. The South Bank area is super fun, hip and a great place for street and candid photography. If you donʻt know it, look for the brilliant neon red London Eye ferris wheel. You canʻt miss it! According to Wikipedia, South […]
How lovely we found Copenhagen! Stopping in at the ports of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki last fall, we were delighted by the beautiful, efficient, stylish and understated culture we found. Our first Scandinavian stop on our Baltic Heritage tour with Princess Cruises was Copenhagen, Denmark. My sister-in-law was Danish and I had so longed to travel to the homeland that produced such a beautiful person, the closest to a saint I’ve ever known. What I noticed first were the bicycles! […]