Family History NYPL

It's a little silly, but I love it.

Spring

Spring and Fall are my favorite seasons. I don't like to be hot nor do I enjoy being cold. I know it will soon become miserably hot, so I'm trying my best to enjoy how amazing the weather currently is.

 Photo's taken on the drive out to my parent's house, small town girl.

Various flowers that have adorned the apartment lately. C and I picked some lovely roses from her boyfriend's grandparent's garden Sunday and my apartment currently smells like a rose garden.

Old City Cemetery Tour

Despite how it might appear I actually do not spend all of my weekends at cemeteries. Though I am averaging about one day a month. I've been wanting to visit the Sacramento Old City Cemetery for one of their history tours. This Saturday's did not disappoint, the focus was police, law, and fire. Sacramento was a pretty rough place in the late 1800's. One of the many bizarre stories was of a gambler who mortally wounded a blacksmith, the shooting pretty much started a riot. The blacksmith did live long enough to hear of the gamblers hanging for his murder (even if he wasn't dead yet) and now they are buried 5-7 plots away from each other in the cemetery.

This is our main tour guide. Don't worry there were several other individuals also dressed up in period garb who shared stories at different grave sites.

I was walking by this headstone at a pace just fast enough to read the first two lines. 

Stopped me dead in my tracks.

Upon reading the headstone in entirety I was much less shocked. I wonder if this association has had a resurgence in the past few years.

I may have mentioned before that this cemetery has an adopt a plot program (which I was crushed to learn requires a 2-year commitment), where one takes care of a plot which has no relations to care for it. Hence almost every plot is a fountain of blooms. It really is one of the most botanical cemeteries I seen.

On top of the amazing flowers the majority of the headstones are unique and visually stunning. Next month's history tour focuses on headstone carving...I die. I have to make room in my schedule.

This monument to Ulises S. Grant and the Civil War is actually painted. I've never seen that before, stained glass - yes, painted sculptures - no.

The last stop on the tour was the firefighters plot. Each headstone listed the engine co. number of individual.

Glad Dad is now retired.

The weather was beautiful (minus the wind). It was a great Saturday morning.

Friday Eats - Oakland

While in Oakland for the Paramount we stumbled upon a gathering of food trucks. We each ordered fantastic grilled cheese sandwiches, had a delicious cupcake and after the show...ice cream sandwiches in homemade cookies.

 D & I

Placing our order.

Charade

Friday night was another showing of the Paramount Movie Classics. This month the film was Charade, one of my favorites. C, D & I had a lovely time. I adore the ambiance. 

 

Family Dinner

Last Wednesday the family got together to celebrate my birthday with dinner.

There is 16 years between us.

Q is such the climber.

Charming brother.

Q had cuddle moments, so rare.

 After dinner we went to get gelato. Q stole Nani's entire cup.

This is right before he raspberries all over her face.

The Last Paper

Last night I finished my last graduate school paper (not counting my thesis). It's a bizarre feeling, knowing I don't have to write another paper for a class ever. I like it. Granted there is still that thesis....