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Yellow Rose: Spring Flower

Spring colors have arrived in the backyard. The yellow rose started blooming last week just as the last American Robins and Cedar Waxwings passed through Palo Alto on their way north. Warm weather...

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Big Alma–San Francisco Philantropist

Big Alma raises her spear into the sky from atop a 97-foot tall Corinthian column in the middle of Union Square in this 1954 photo that I mercilessly photoshopped to augment the usually cloudless...

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Tulips: Spring Color In Palo Alto

There are lots of trees in Palo Alto and people here tend to favor rose bushes, but the city is not known for tulips. This front yard is an exception. Good work, whoever you are. Carto

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Spring Color: Blue, Pink and Green

Blue sky and warm weather describes the day in Palo Alto. It’s a great day for a walk. What is this pink flowering tree? And, don’t forget to look down while you walk. The desert succulents are taking...

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Change: Spring on Stanford Campus

A bird walk on campus today turned up this bold Brown Thrasher that is raising his voice to claim this small tree as his territory. He should be a little more cautious as a hawk is perched nearby. A...

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Photo Challenge: Up — California Academy of Science

Sunlight filters down from the portholes on the Academy roof through aquatic plants living in 200,000 gallons of water to the floor of the Steinhart Aquarium 25 feet below the California Academy of...

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Bliss On The Bay Trail

The Bill Bliss memorial looks out across the San Francisco Bay from a viewpoint in the Palo Alto Baylands. Bliss in the Moment by Palo Alto artist James Moore, was installed along the Bay Trail in...

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May Flowers, But No Showers

The weather has been unseasonably warm (hot), but today the storm clouds are gathering. It’s probably a tease, since our meager rainy season has come and gone for this year. Enjoy the May flowers while...

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West Coast – Maine Lobster Roll

In my opinion, even a short visit to San Diego must include lunch at  Point Loma Seafoods. On this day we were tempted by the daily special which was their version of the Maine Lobster Roll. The...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background of Red Hoop Fountain

It’s the week after graduation at Stanford and a lone student reads in the background of Shumway Fountain. Called the Red Hoop, Shumway Fountain is between Green and Meyer Libraries – usually a busy...

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Niki de Saint Palle – The Nanas of San Diego

  Guarding the entrance to the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park is the giant figure of a poet and his muse. The muse appears precariously perched atop the rock solid poet; were she to fly off...

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Squaw Valley Spring – Day 1

The Resort at Squaw Creek opened in 1990 on the eastern edge of Olympic Valley home of the Squaw Valley ski area, which was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. The ’60 Winter Olympics were the first...

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Squaw Valley, Spring – Nourishment

When staying at a deluxe hotel why not eat a fancy desert?  My choice this day was a trio of tiny sugar cones: lemon sorbet, green tea sherbet, and strawberry ice cream were capped with tiny matching...

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Squaw Valley, Spring – Housecleaning

Squaw Valley village is quiet in early June; it’s between seasons and a good time to do housecleaning and tidy up after a winter of skiing. The two tram cables extend from their anchors in bedrock at...

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Summer Clean-up

Graduation weekend has come and gone. It’s summer on campus and time to clean-up a few things. Careful with those tiles, guys. Carto

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Lake Sunapee – A Good Day For A Boat Ride

It was a grey day and rain was on the way, but we were booked on the Mt Sunapee. After the sail, we got off the boat and the downpour hit with vengeance. The Kearsarge was launched in 1897 and …...

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Mt Washington Hotel – A View of the Presidents

The Mt Washington Hotel is within shouting distance of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains. You can see the Cog Railway going up the side of Mt Washington to the summit visitor center and,...

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New Hampshire — Visiting A Glass Blower

Blowing glass is hot, hard work. Nathan Macomber collects glass from the “glory hole” to begin a new piece for the Mt. Sunapee Fair. In Nathan’s workshop, the finished glass is ready for packing and...

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Colma–San Francisco’s Historic Cemetery

About 2000 people call Colma their home, but below ground lie more than a million former residents of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Colma is a necropolis just south of San Francisco: the city motto...

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Porsche Electric Car, 1898 Edition

Not a wagon, but an electric car with a 50 mile range and a top speed of over 20 mph. This is the Porsche model P1, one of four built in 1898, by Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of Porsche car …...

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