Go look at pictures for a change

Over at the photo site (which for months I have woefully failed to highlight over on this site) I have posted pictures from last July's trip to Zion National Park...

...as well as some shots from Disneyland...

So go click your way on over and have a look.

More Kauai Pictures

For those of you haven't visited the photo site since the last time I mentioned it, be advised that if you click on over you'll see more spiffy photos from last month's trip to Kaua'i, including such subjects as:

Spouting Horn

A bit of Kalalau Trail

Snorkeling at Ha'ena Beach

Waikanaloa Wet Cave

North coast mountain (and a rainbow... again)

And if you don't then you'll miss out, so do it.

Later? Sure, later is fine. They're not going anywhere.

Remembering

I-beam recovered from the North Tower, taken last month at the Orange County Fair (taken by my wife).

Waterfalls of Kaua'i

Attention reader of words: If you could use a break from all this text, be advised that over on the photo site I have added posts featuring waterfalls on Kaua'i, taken during our recent vacation to the island.

Click on over to have a look at these sights:

Ho'opi'i Falls

'Opaeka'a Falls

Wailua Falls

Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Over on the photo site there's shots taken at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens during last month's trip. Here's a few to tantalize you to click on over.

Hey, wait a second...

Getting artsy at the DIA

Over on the photo site you will find a plethora of shots taken at the Detroit Institute of the Arts (DIA) taken during last month's visit to the Motor City. What's almost as good as actual art? Pictures of it!

Click on over to see the rest, and enrich yourself.

Our glimpse of a Levitated Mass (aka the LACMA rock)

In the hours before dawn this morning a 340-ton boulder rolled into mid-city Los Angeles, completing an 11-day, 105-mile journey from the desert. Its destiny is to become part of a tremendous sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), to be made by artist Michael Heizer and called "Levitated Mass." And you can click on the links to read more about that if you're interested. This post is about the experience my wife and I had involving it a few nights ago.

These aren't the droids you're looking for

Today fabulous my wife surprised me. All week she'd been talking about it, making sure I didn't have to work this weekend so we could do the surprise. When we left the house this morning I honestly didn't even know where we were going. (I won't go into the story she told or the things that I went through to keep up the ruse to keep me from guessing.)

And where did we end up? At the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana to see the exhibit of costumes, props, and models from the Star Wars movies. (Yep, we're geeky enough to do that, but not so geeky that we made it to the exhibit any time since November when it opened.)

Although I only had my cell phone I still took a bunch of photos, including some artistic attempts at:

Tight shot of stormtrooper costume.

It must be love

Over on the photo site there's a recent post featuring a bunch of shots of elephant seals, some being affectionate, some snuggling, and even some scuffling.

Swim on over and check out the rest...

Monarchs

Over on the photo site, I've added a post featuring the migrating monarch butterflies at the Pismo State Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove, such as this cluster on a branch.


Click on over and check out the whole set. Enjoy.

Cilantro'd

Over on the photo site, you can see how this cilantro...

...turns into flowers like this:

Click here to see it.

A strawberry from the beginning

Over on the photo site, I've resumed posting some shots from the garden (remember this?), starting with this subject:

In case you don't recognize it, this is the early stage of a strawberry. See what came of it here.

Maui: The photos conclude

A few weeks ago I directed your attention to pictures from our recent Maui trip over on the photo site. I've posted a few more now, but it occurs to me that between the previous mention and this one some other posts went up without notice, so just for the record, if you click over you can see photos like...

Ohe'o Gulch

Banyan tree on Pipiwai Trail

Bamboo forest (also on Pipiwai Trail)

This butterfly.

Waimoku Falls

Over on West Maui, Nakalele Blowhole

Offshore on South Maui, a waterproof camera got shots of this giant sea turtle.

CLICK HERE.

Maui: The photos commence

Over on the photo site I've started posting pictures from the recent Maui vacation, including sites such as:

Honomanu Bay

Wai'anapanapa Park

CLICK HERE TO GO VIEW THEM.

(More coming soon.)

A California Wonder from the beginning

Over on the photo site, you can see (over the course of 17 shots) this little bud grow into a "California Wonder" bell pepper. Click here and go see nature in action (or as much as what happened out in our little patio garden qualifies).

How did our garden grow?

Over on the photo site, you can see how my wife's garden out on our condo patio turned from this:

To this in two months:

Go watch the transition (inasmuch as weekly shots of the progress qualify as transition).

At the zoo

(Yeah, this was an unfortunate shot of the gorillas.)

Some of the more entertaining aspects of visiting the San Diego Zoo (as my wife and I did a little over a month ago--and from which there are photos now posted over on the photo site; see below) are not found in watching the animals featured in the various enclosures throughout the grounds but from observing the animals on outside the cages—in other words, the people who paid to gain entry.

Presumably by virtue of the San Diego Zoological Society putting together one of the most renown zoos in the world it becomes more of a tourist attraction to those who would not otherwise be inclined to visit a zoo, but for whatever reason there are no shortage of people whose lack of study makes them more worthy of being studied.

They probably should be tagged and their reproductive activities tracked so scientists can learn about how they pass along their stupidity to the next generation, but that's another story.

More ranunculus photos

Over on the photo site I've posted some shots from a visit to the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, where the fields were filled with many varieties of ranunculus. A couple are available below, but why not take a moment to click here and view the rest?

Faded Orange Ranunculus

Back in February over at the photo site I posted some shots of ranunculus when they were freshly cut, which I posted here. However, today I wanted to alert the interested that there's a new post up at the photo site featuring those same flowers two weeks later (yes, the lasted that long).

Below are a couple examples, and you can click here to check out the rest.

Perigee

Over at the photo site I have posted shots of tonight's perigee full moon (or "supermoon" as some called it). Although it was partially obscured by clouds here in Southern California, but that didn't stop me from getting some shots (and even more amazingly, I processed and posted them within hours of shooting them). Below are a couple to try to prompt you to click on over and check out the rest.