Photo Notes: Portrait of the artist as a young girl. Riley does indeed have blue eyes (crossed as well) and dark ears. Note the phonetic spelling of Riley's name - the other cat, Phoebe, was spelled FEBEY. I'm impressed! Alas, I didn't take a picture of that drawing.
Photo Notes: As it is Memorial Day I thought a tribute to one of the fallen was in order here. Johnny Frye was my fathers friend, and fell at Okinawa. The picture above was taken at Scofield Barracks in Hawaii, not long before that. Here are my father's words, in an email to me:
Photo Notes: OK. Here is my new SUV, parked on the side of the road, on the way up to see my Dad. And what a great pleasure it is to drive!
Photo Notes: OK. How to entertain a small boy - give him a camera and tell him to take some pictures of the rabbits in a city park! And he got one - click to see the prey!
Photo Notes: Everyone is familiar with the Golden Gate Bridge. The designer (he wasn't, really, but that's another story) Strauss actually got his start building "bascule" bridges over various streams and creeks in San Francisco - indeed, he had a patent on certain kinds of these bridges. There are only two left of these now in San Francisco, one of which is this, the Fourth Street Bridge, near the old Candlestick Park. Apparently they are going to take it completely apart, rebuild it, and put it back. After nearly ninety years it is probably due some maintenance!
Photo Notes: Every year the town of Port Townsend in Washington state has a wooden boat festival. This shot was taken in 1998 and it appears to be a gaff rigged (wooden, I'm sure) schooner. Note the lack of any square sails at all - downwind might be interesting.
Photo Notes: The new moon in the old moon's arms - or is it the other way around? Anyway, the darkish portion is actually shining by reflected earth light, which is bounced back again to us. Given that the moon is just about the color of charcoal this gives an idea of how much light is reflected off of the earth - primarily off the clouds, I would guess. The leaves are from an overgrown rose bush in the foreground...
Photo Notes: Here is downtown Cayucos, California, as seen from its pier, just before the Fourth of July. Still pretty quiet...
Photo Notes: Here is a complement to last week's picture, from the beach, looking out at the pacific ocean, and a distant fog bank... The picture from a year ago this week was also ocean related, San Diego as seen from a deadly Russian submarine!
Photo Notes: Here is a shot across California's central valley, from Interstate 5 looking east towards the southern Sierra Nevada mountains