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zyzyly ([personal profile] zyzyly) wrote2013-12-09 06:08 pm

57004--Lilac Wine

I drive past a park on the way to work every day. Off the right side of the freeway bridge, looking to the east is the American river. It is a beautiful sight in the early morning--the banks lined with trees, the river still, reflecting the first rays of sun. There's no place to stop and get a shot, so it is a picture that I take in my head every day.

On the other side of the freeway bridge is Discovery Park, where the American meets the Sacramento river. It's a nice spot to hang out--sometimes I take my lunch there, but not often enough.

discovery park

One of the first shots I posted here (or at my previous journal) when I did my first "picture a day for a year" thing back in 2006, was taken in Discovery Park during the January floods. It was January 3rd. "The waters are turbulent", I noted. It was the year I started putting my life back together. The waters were turbulent.

Anyway, I didn't have to be at work until 8 this morning, so I drove through the park to see if I could find a vantage point to take a picture of the river. I got out and took some shots of the old bridge, nothing special. It was cold out--about 24 degrees. I got back in the car and drove out of the park, glancing at the archery range on the right as I went out. I almost got to the freeway entrance, and turned back. I can't count how many pictures I just kept driving past in the past few years, but not this one.

archery range

[identity profile] shutterbug.livejournal.com 2013-12-10 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
That first pic is insane. Wow.

Second one? So cool that the park has an archery area. You don't see that just anywhere.

[identity profile] zyzyly.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Because the park is between two rivers, it is meant as an overflow area. It floods every few years.
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[personal profile] howeird 2013-12-10 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Easter Island!

[identity profile] zyzyly.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
ya!
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off topic

[personal profile] gracegiver 2013-12-10 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Mike, have you seen Searching for Sugar Man, the documentary of Rodriguez? If not, you should.

Re: off topic

[identity profile] zyzyly.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't--I will look it up.

I looked it up--sounds really interesting. I'll see if I can find it.

[identity profile] pinkroo.livejournal.com 2013-12-10 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
you have great taste in music :)

[identity profile] zyzyly.livejournal.com 2013-12-12 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
lol--so do you!