A man in a movie about insomnia and soap asked, “If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” And hey, maybe you could.
One morning, I woke up in San Francisco. I had my camera with me, so here are some pictures. I felt sloppy taking them; it feels like I’ve been out of practice. Probably because I have. Not much going on around Riverside, you know. Hey, there’s another reason why it’s nice to wake up in a different place every now and then.
Yes, the rumours are true. We have, in Riverside, had weather different from “hot and sunny”. In fact, it is raining (weakly, but still) outside at this moment, and not too long ago we had lightning and thunder. Imagine that.
So I ran outside to Sycamore Canyon Park just in time for sunset, and it was a show. Editing those photos while listening to Smetana’s Má Vlast is almost enough to make you religious.
I decided to put up only one photo… I think it sums everything up quite nicely.
(The full-res panorama is 21k x 4k … putting this together on my computer took me about three hours. Aren’t I supposed to be in grad school or something?)
I recently took a trip up to Oregon and Norcal; here are the pictures. We visited the Trinity Alps, Crater Lake National Park, then drove down most of the Oregon coast. A final few days we spent in Redwoods State Park up in Norcal and a few days in Point Lobos. Here are some pictures, hope you like them.
Hopefully we have now fixed the issues with the plugin that created thumbnails for me, so I can upload pictures again. Huzzah!
Here is the first gallery from two different trips: a visit to Santa Monica and a day hike on the Big Santa Anita Loop in the Angeles National Forest. More pics to come soon, if nothing breaks.
A few weeks ago I made to March Field Airfest (http://www.marchfieldairfest.com/). It was great, got to see lots of cool planes. The ones that made the biggest impression on me were the F-22 Raptor and the C-17 Globemaster III. I just put up a gallery with some photos here. A few of them didn’t work with the plugin that is supposed to handle images for me, so, for your viewing pleasure, they are here (although in lower resolution):
And some other pictures that didn’t quite make the cut into the gallery:
I had little to do (that I felt like doing, I suppose) this Tuesday afternoon, and the weather outside looked reasonably cloudy and windy and still nice, so I did the obvious thing to do: go out and make a time lapse video.
By the time I figured out how to get an intervalometer (you know, the thing that sets the camera off every so often – I used my graphing calculator) the clouds went away a bit, but hey, I got a video. Check it out, innit.
Mount San Gorgonio is the tallest peak in Southern California, and is less than an hour away from Riverside. Pretty cool, right? We were told we couldn’t go there without snowshoes etc., but we managed, although in places every step would land us more than knee-deep in snow.
