Today, we drove down to my Mom and Dad’s house to visit. While we were there, I found this pretty rose growing in one of Mom’s flowerbeds. Of course I had to take a picture of it.
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December 2008
Catalina Island from del Cerro Park
Yesterday, I posted a view of the LA Basin looking north. Here is a view of Catalina Island taken a little earlier in the same day, looking south. All the smoke and haze normally seen to the north was now seen obscuring the Catalina Channel at lower elevations. Click for a larger view and notice the subtle but pleasant colors in the sky just above the island.
View of the City
Every fall and winter, we get those special days where the winds come and blow all the haze and smoke away from the Los Angeles Basin.
Last weekend on Saturday, we took a drive up to the Palos Verdes Peninsula to see what we could see from the top of the hill. We weren’t disappointed with the views of Santa Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands, although the haze along the ocean’s surface obscured the lower elevations of both islands. I’ll post a photo I took of Catalina tomorrow.
Meanwhile, with all the haze blown out to sea, we had this view of the L.A. Basin as we descended from the hill through Crenshaw Canyon. Click on the photo above to enlarge.
Summer Grand Canyon Panorama
This is the Grand Canyon as it appeared on a summer day in July, 2008. The panoramic image came from a series of photos taken at the South Rim near Mather Point. I stitched the photos together to make this panoramic view.
Hopefully, I will soon be able to show this same panoramic view as it appears in the wintertime. Stay tuned.
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Christmas Lights 2008
Here is our house with the final layer of Christmas Lights. We scaled down the display this year to save a little electricity. There are four strings of colored C9s (100 feet) and four strings of little white icicle lights (about 80 feet). Around the front window is a string of twinkle lights with colored bulbs. In reserve to be used next year, maybe, we have net lights for the bushes and rope lights for the trees.
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Pines and Needles
Pine Cones and Pine Needles, that is.
We were out and about this weekend and, as usual, I had the camera along. We walked under an evergreen conifer in Del Cerro Park and I snapped this picture. Considering the Christmas Season is here, this picture makes for a very nice Christmas card, don’t you think?
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