Travels and Meditations On Our Built Environments From California's Capital City, Sacramento

Monday, April 2, 2012

Government Town II: The Mural Spirit

Only in a state capital would this be possible. A government bureaucrat is welcoming guys who are leaving artist Stephanie Taylor's mural of the historic 1872 painting by Charles Christian Nahl,  "Sunday in the Mines."

The thoughtful bureaucrat is rather like the one in my Government Town post a year ago from another part of downtown.

 It's all very clever, and a nice touch on an otherwise bland part of J Street in downtown Sacramento. Here's a guess: They're off to Happy Hour at McCormick and Schmicks down the street?

By the way, do you think they could have made the back side of this building any more ugly? That needs a forest of redwoods in front of it.