Shane and his well-chewed tennis balls.

37°18’54.35″N 122°11’17.22″W
On Russian Ridge in the morning sun.

Red gladiolas from a flower arrangement.
Processed with Lightroom to get a more dramatic feeling from them.

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

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.

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

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.

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.)

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.

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.