The Markeroni Blog

The three of us weren’t quite done yet, so we decided to go looking for more snarfs. I took beautyredefined and WanderingRaleighite to the nearby courthouse, where this odd little arrangement of characters can be found, depicting, in cartoon format, the Gold Rush.

We ended up doing a kind of zig-zag around the general area, heading through ChinaTown and seeing magnificent architecture like this.

This one, a timeline on a cross-section of a large old tree, is going to be a pig to transcribe. ;)

Here’s the Cesar Chavez monument in Plaza Park. People were sitting on it the first time we were around, so we grabbed the opportunity to photograph it while we still could.

Interspersed with coffee breaks we shuffled from place to place, enjoying the old buildings and good company. Look at the detail on this building…

Finally, after wandering for miles in a totally different direction we made our way back here, to the Governor’s mansion. It was the erstwhile home of several California governors and its plaque will eventually be hung up again when they find room for it. ;)

And so on, and so forth. Until our feet dropped off. And then, a little sadly, we parted company and our Markeroons all went off in their different directions.

What a lovely long weekend it was. :) Shall we do it again?

• Here are Avanta’s photos on Flickr and her blog writeup.
• And a few photos from beautyredefined plus a write-up.

If anyone else has links to add, let us know!