I pulled this photo out of my archive. It was taken in Washington Square Park during Fleet Week in 1996. The Blue Angels were making their runs over San Francisco. I liked the mix of the war birds flying above Saints Peter and Paul Church. The unique look is from a high pass filter. I…

One of my tomato plants is loaded down with fruit… er, I mean vegetables. Gosh, shouldn’t tomatoes be called fruit? I had to do some quick research about this. Here are some links I found: http://www.howstuffworks.com/question143.htm http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bot00/bot00283.htm http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutother/tomato An interesting quote from one of them: “The confusion about ‘fruit’ and ‘vegetable’ arises because of the…

The bees love these flowers.

Furry Flower – aka Purple Hibiscus One of the flowers growing in our backyard. Looks tropical. Almost like a carnivorous plant that entices its prey and then zaps it with poison. Or maybe not. But one can only wish. :’)

This is one of a billion that hang out in our yard. They are amazing because of the size of some of their webs. I measured one that had been strung across a space 15ft/5m. Always fun walking through one those webs and wondering where the beasty ended up. That then leads to the ghostly…

The fog and wind came in strong as it usually does on the 4th of July here in San Francisco. For this low lying fireworks, the wind added to the light show. Here is the high-rez version of the Fireworks image (904kb).

Here’s Hairy taking a break among the deep grass on one of the hills in Briones Park. The rains have really helped to keep things green. The grasses have grown deep and the wild flowers are abundant.

Some of the cows that roam Briones park like to gather near this gate in the evening. They will bunch themselves up into a tight group against the gate and fence. Maybe they feel safer with one side protected. Whatever the reason, the result is that they leave lots of fresh piles ‘o poop to…