Day 285 - bring on the rain...

Day 267 - Rain, rain go away...

...not really; I LOVE it!

75-300mm lens

1/60 @ F5.6/ ISO=400

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Day 106

"What makes you, you."
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Well, it's the last day of the challenge...so here goes. I'm a musician. I play piano, have since I was 11 years old. I also play the contra-alto-bass-clarinet, guitar, glockenspiel (basically a marching version of the xylophone but metal), chimes, xylophone (was in the percussion section in band) and tenor drum (marching instrument). I'm sure I've forgotten something but that's okay. I consider myself a "jack of all trades; master of none". lol.

proof is in the pic....have a laugh! (circa 1985)

Hard rain coming down....all my rose bushes were leaning over after being beat down by the rain. :(

Day 98 (14 weeks)

..."it never rains in California, but girl don' they warn ya...it pours, man it pours."

April showers bring May flowers? My oldest and only full-sized rose bush.

..."rainy days and mondays always get me down."

Day 79

Last minute addition...saw this through the window and had to capture it.

The challenge for this week is "local landmarks" so here we go.

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Anyone in/ around Vacaville knows about Buck Avenue. On Buck Avenue sits the Buck Mansion along with many,many other beautiful, huge, and quite old mansions. It's an old, old neighborhoood where, up until the 90's, our annual parade went down. When I was in the marching band in High School we marched down the path you see till it curved around and returned back to the High School. I miss having the parade on this street. The big, old trees that shaded you and people filled up their wrap-around porches and sat on their blankets on their front lawn to watch the parade. The new parade route has NO shade, is very wide and has no personality to it whatsoever. This is what happens when a town grows up.

A pic from back when of our Vacaville Museum that sits on Buck Avenue, to give you an idea of the architecture of the Buck houses.