On Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at 6:20 p.m., the western sky held an unusual sight. A sheet of cloud was illuminated, with a dazzling refraction on either side of the setting sun. High up in the sky above this display, there was an upside-down rainbow. These photos show the brilliant refraction of the sections of "ring" around the sun, made visible on the cloud sheet.  The rainbow was opposite the sun ring, far above the sun and cloud sheet, with the full spectrum of colors visible. And upside down.

The word may have already gotten out, that Sacramento, California -- halfway between places some would rather be -- has been visited by perfect California Mediterranean weather. Minus a mid-summer furnace blast of heat (so far), we've had near continuous Delta Breezes and mild temperatures, clean air and as one local weathercaster puts it, "good sleepin' weather." The cool weather means that backyard and balcony gardeners may have harvested merely a handful of homegrown tomatoes. Now, residents can pick up good, fresh, cheap tomatoes from local farmers almost any day of the week; as well as nectarines, peaches, flowers, avocados, carrots, potatoes, strawberries, lavender and lavender hone

 "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust "Victim trees are located outside, near to or within a block of bars and nightclubs. The damage consists of twisting, cutting them in half or breaking off at any point newly planted trees of all species, ripping out the stakes and battering the trees and trying to break a tree by bending it over so far that it damaged the root system so much it could not stand straight without city arborists’ attention and help." -- Tree Vandalism, Dale Kooyman http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/27950/Tree_Vandalism Photos: 1. Vandalized tree. 2. Stunted growth of vandalized tree. 3. Grow

 "The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 1810. ME 12:417 "There is no pain you are receding, A distant ship's smoke on the horizon, You are only coming through in waves, Your lips move, But I can't hear what you're saying" -- Pink Floyd   When I moved back to Sacramento -- which so many hometowners do, as we are acclimated to the diversity, the sense of place and continuity, the perfect climate, the confluence of rivers, highways, dreams and history -- I took my childhood friend to an epic concert at Hughes Stadium on the Sacramento City College camp

Midtown residents have been dealing for years with the impacts of a City led campaign to "Bring People Downtown" that ignored the fact that people are already here. Media and Midtown Business Association boosters have contributed by consistently disparaging the existing mixed-use neighborhoods as a desolate, disgusting and scary wasteland; a "dead zone" with invisible/irrelevant residents. Yet, Midtown's now-attractive and lucrative historic neighborhoods ONLY exist, due to the diligent, hard work and determination of residents, preservationists and neighborhoods associations, over the past few decades. Residents met with the MBA and other stakeholders in 2009 as part of MBA's Regional

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Me too, Colleen! The frame wasn't big enough to show the rainbow in relation to the "sundogs"

saw it in a parking lot, had a camera with and it worked out. glad you like it, Kati.

thanks for the link. did you see the rainbow?

Thanks Richard.