I was at Mom and Dad’s today. They live near the Los Angeles Airport. I took this picture of an airliner on approach to the airport from their front yard. I thought the sun and the clouds made a nice backdrop for the airplane. Click for a larger view.
Normally, when visiting the seashore, I take panoramic images of the coastline and surf. This time, however, in addition to the usual, I turned around and took a panoramic series of shots of the area behind the cove and combined them into this view. This was taken near Roessler Point, Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes Estates, CA. Click on the image for the full-sized panorama.
We spent part of our day at the indoor shooting range doing some target practice. It was cool outside but on the range we were right at home warming up our firearms and sharpening up our accuracy. Here’s a photo of Verna as she draws a bead with her 20 gauge Remington 870 on a paper target at 7 yards.
We really had a lot of fun shooting today. Click the picture above to enlarge.
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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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.
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.
