A Picture A Day

Archive for September, 2007

September 30th, 2007

September 30, 2007 – Monte Bello Open Space


37°19’11.87″N 122° 9’45.51″W
On the Bella Vista Trail in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve.

September 29th, 2007

September 29, 2007 – Blue Angels Flyover


36°37’19.53″N 121°38’44.56″W
The Blue Angels were performing at the Salinas Air Show. We weren’t there, but were close enough to get a few dramatic fly-overs.

September 28th, 2007

September 28, 2007 – Halo Brothers

Halo Brothers
Eric is home for the weekend, and the brothers are bonding over Halo.

September 27th, 2007

September 27, 2007 – Pulgas Water Temple


37°29’1.13″N 122°18’57.60″W
Erected at the end of the Hetch Hetchy water system, bringing fresh water to the Bay Area.
I processed this one to give it a postcardish look.

September 26th, 2007

September 26, 2007 – Irene

Irene
My mother-in-law, Irene, passed away last night. She was a wonderful person, intelligent and gifted in many ways. Among many interests, Irene wrote poetry. She recently gave a gift to Sarah of a handwritten collection of 38 of her poems beautifully bound.

“Drink New Joy”, on the right hand page, is a letter to her daughter for today.

(A larger image is here.)

September 25th, 2007

September 25, 2007 – Downtown LA


34° 1’53.16″N 118°13’36.24″W
Flying into LA for a meeting. A bit different from the air quality in LA when I was growing up.

September 24th, 2007

September 24, 2007 – Spider Web


37°18’54.54″N 122°11’16.90″W
Taken at 9am this morning as the sun was just coming over the hills up on Russian Ridge. There were dozens of dew glistening webs like this by the parking lot. The spider in the middle is almost 2″ in diameter.

I tried to get some great macro shots, but without a tripod I couldn’t hold still enough – in fact even this shot is shaky. I’ll head up there more prepared on another morning.

September 23rd, 2007

September 23, 2007 – First Day of Fall


Not too many Sundays like this one left.
(Note to NYT Crossword geeks, the San Jose Mercury lags a week from the Times.)

September 22nd, 2007

September 22, 2007 – Concert Seat


37°25’36.67″N 122° 4’51.03″W
Taken at Shoreline Amphitheatre during a Steve Miller concert. I straightened this photo a few degrees and removed a water drop, but otherwise this is untouched, including color and contrast – a rarity.

September 21st, 2007

September 21, 2007 – Windmill


37°19’51.06″N 122°12’52.98″W
This windmill sits atop Russian Ridge. It is a water pump for a set of private buildings on the hill.