Looking for Someplace to Sketch

Marty and I have been going exploring on Sundays to places near Sacramento that a) we've never visited, and b) are scenic enough to inspire him to sketch the landscape. Today we found a most scenic spot.

We planned to drive out near Fairfield to see the hills, all golden in this late summer, and along about Davis, took a detour up through Winters on a whim, looking for Buckhorn's. We discovered we were "only" ten miles from Lake Berryessa, so decided to continue north. We stopped at the Monticello Dam and hydroelectric project, where there is a distinctive "morning glory" spillway behind the dam. Because the lake level was low, we didn't see it in action.

Then we drove a few miles farther to Markley Cove and Resort, before ducking into a little park to visit Putah Creek and sketch. I uploaded several additional photos to my Flickr photostream.

Got Me a Domain Name!

The process was cheap and easy, but the reams of agreements, policies, privacy statements, were costly in terms of paper and ink. Yes, I finally succumbed to the lure of a personal domain name and set one up this evening. I'm now the proud owner of www.annot8tions.com! In a few days, after the bots have a chance to update the indexes, the address of this blog will change from "halona.blogspot.com" to the new one.

However, as soon as I saw the address up there on the screen, I realized I hadn't thought this through sufficiently well: I have another blog on Wordpress called Annot8tions, and it lives at annot8tions.wordpress.com. I use it as my professional, rather than personal, blog. So now I have to think of a way to reconcile the two. Either Quick-Draw McGraw here just shot herself in the foot, or there will be some creative remixing going on. I'll have to sleep on it.