Outdoor Art at Robbins Hall

There is some relatively outdoor art at Robbins Hall at UC Davis. The art features plants, evolution and DNA -- things I dig. Here are some pics.

Robbins Hall Outdoor Art

The only issue I have is that they did not highlight the bacteria that should be present on the bean roots (legumes fix nitrogen via nitrogen fixing bacteria that hang out in nodules in the roots). But if we take an artistic interpretation of the bean roots, some of the little black triangles there can be considered root nodules.

Anyway, just thought I would share the pics. The art is worth checking out if you are in the area.

Woodland Native Dustin Pedroia Wins AL MVP Award

As a Boston native, one of the worries I had moving out to Davis a few years ago related to being too far from the RedSox, Sure they come to Oakland and sure my brother has season tickets to the A's mostly to get RedSox tickets, but California is really far from Fenway Park. Well, at least there are lots of RedSox fans around here, especially if I go up to Woodland. Woodland, if you do not know, is the home town of the newest RedSox superstar, Dustin Pedroia, who nearly carried the Sox into the World Series and today was awarded the American League MVP Award. Way to go Dustin and thanks Woodland for helping out my team.

Visit to the Raptor Center and Putah Creek

Just thought I would share some pics from a nice outing we had yesterday. We went to the UC Davis Raptor Center for their open house and then went for a walk along Putah Creek.

Outdoor art at the Farmer's Market

Love the outdoor art in the renovated Gardens in Central Park in Davis ...

Links on Outdoor Art in Davis from DavisLife Magazine

Just got some links to a collection on outdoor art in Davis from people at DavisLife magazine.

• http://nov-2007.davislifemagazine.com/publicart/pg1
• http://dec-2007.davislifemagazine.com/art/pg1
• http://jan-2008.davislifemagazine.com/publicart/pg1
• http://feb-2008.davislifemagazine.com/publicart/pg1
• http://march-2008.davislifemagazine.com/art/pg1
• http://apr-2008.davislifemagazine.com/art/pg1
• http://may-2008.davislifemagazine.com/art/pg1
• http://june-2008.davislifemagazine.com/art/pg1

Roan Press Web Site Live

Well, I wrote about Roan Press ("Sacramento's Small Literary Publisher") a while ago (see here) since a friend of mine from grad. school Brad Buchanan had published a new poetry book through them and was on the air on KDVS.  And now the Roan Press web site is live.  You can order Brad's book Swimming the Mirror there (and see a review here).  Brad will be doing a reading at the Avid Reader in Sacramento (1600 Broadway) at 1 PM on October 26. 

Strange Helicopter Sighting over Davis

Strange military style helicopter came very close to houses in Wildhorse this PM.  Not sure what they were doing but they seemed to be searching for something and it came just after hearing some very loud car-like motors revving by.