A new arrival, as in a new photo opportunity.Sunday morning around 8:30 I spotted the Galactic Wizard parked on Fourth Street in front of Rex Hardware. Judging from the curtains covering all the windows, people may have been sleeping in the bus. On Petaluma streets!The Galactic Wizard is a bus [...]

The flag flying free?A week ago Sunday the large, American flag on the mill tried to make an escape but fortunately it was only able to free its lower half.By the next morning it had been properly secured and is once again flying proudly over our town.

I just finished reading a very interesting book: The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America by Paul ChiassonIn a thoroughly researched and convincingly written book the author details how the stone walls, nearby stone work and other evidence he found on Cape Breton Island [...]

The comments that follow were originally posted the day after the presidential election of 2008. Somehow someone has figured out a way to get past Petaluma 360's security measures and has been spamming this one post. I've deleted the original, hoping that will stop the spam but I don't want [...]

More balancig acts with one that is bound to get attention.

I was in Sausalito last weekend. As I was walking down Bridgeway St., I noticed a small crowd of people on the sidewalk facing towards the bay. As they had filled the available space on the sidewalk it wasn't immediately obvious what they might be looking at.Squatting down on the [...]

More antique dolls from Main Street Petaluma.

Petaluma never seens to run out of people, places, things and events that make for interesting photographs. I found this doll in an antique store downtown today.

I'm fortunate to have a view of the sunrising with one of Petaluma's mills in the foreground. And I was forutnate this morning to be looking eastward as the sun came up.

To the small, close at hand.More fun with photography on a cold, winter's morn!