We (the Dad, the boyos, and I) spent last week in Sacramento. The Dad had meetings and work, while the boys and I explored the wet city from underneath brand-new umbrellas. We put tokens into the Art-o-Mat at the Crocker, ate really good ramen, explored Old Sac, saw Sutter's Fort and the Indian Museum, and of course visited the library! The Dad even got to join us for an evening hike at the Effie Yeaw nature preserve, which is breathtakingly beautiful in spring. We saw wood ducks, mallards, and both great egrets and snowy egrets. The great egrets stood like stately statues, while the snowies would stand still for about ten seconds and then suddenly scramble and pounce through the shallows and stab their long beaks into the water. When they popped back up, they looked confused and stunned. Probably they were actually catching something small like snails, but to us they looked like awkward children trying and repeatedly failing to snatch some small, swift creature from the river.
While we were in Sacramento, this arrived at home--a postcard from another visit to the same city.
I think I've mentioned how terrible I am with watercolors. I haven't a clue how to use them but I'm drawn to them anyway, especially on ephemeral projects like the postcards. I figure I'd be excited to find a postcard in a library book no matter what the art looked like, and if it's poorly done then there's less temptation to keep it rather than dropping it in the mail.
Keeping, of course, is always a possibility, but we're grateful for every finder who sends the cards back to us! This one wrote simply:
GREETINGS FROM SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY
828 I STREET
SACRAMENTO, CA 95814
Thanks, finder, for returning it home!
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