Whenever I am in a hurry, I find myself weaving in and out of alleyways and such trying to take the quickest route to my destination. However, in Downtown Sacramento it seems every other street is bombarded with DO NOT ENTER signs. This frustrates me. The reason it gets under my skin so much, is that as I look down the street, I can plainly see that on the other side of that sign, is a clear and unobstructed street ready for travel. The street goes through, yet there is a sign telling me that I cant. I must admit, that if this were an idea conjured up by the city of Sacramento as some way to control traffic on certain streets, I’m not sure I understand the logic behind their reasoning. T

So my favorite picture is the paint splatters that have created art by covering up another form of art. Funny how that works.  Ok so name this alley way. The first one to correctly name the cross streets gets a reusable sacpress.com grocery bag. 

I have always loved the alleyways in the central city and wanted to document the amazing gems that lived just a few steps of the beaten path. The original shot is from the main road and the following are some of the items I chose to shoot. I plan to repeat this process for many streets in the central city. After this first post I will not name the street and I would love to see if the community here on sacpress.com can figure out were each weeks post comes from.   Week one is 10th and Q