Of that I’m sure. Last night I thought for awhile that I’d be running up to the Sierra to ski for the day. But my skiing buddy wanted to leave at 5:00 am… from Concord. That’s an hour from my home, so I would have had to get up at 3:30. After a very busy [...]
I have been experimenting with different sizes for the photographs I post here. Originally I was limiting myself to image widths of 500 pixels, but I was not comfortable with the loss of details.
Recently I switched to 650 pixel width images. (See the Castle Rock State Park images posted last week.) Horizontally-formatted photos work great [...]
Updates have been spotty over the past week and a half due to a dsl outage from my provider, speakeasy.net. (I’ve posted details elsewhere for those who are interested in such things.)
In any case, my service came back up last night on day 9 of the outage and I’m optimistic that it will stay that [...]
Fog and trees near Goat Rock. January 19, 2004.
Branch, grass, and trees at Castle Rock State Park. January 19, 2004.
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The name Castle Rock(s) is used to describe geological features in many different places. (A Google search will confirm this.) This Castle Rock is in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Central California, located on a ridge between San [...]
I’m still suffering from lack of dsl service at my home while speakeasy.net’s lame excuse for tech support tries to figure out what went wrong… 5 days ago.
But that’s not keeping me at home. In addition to today’s Castle Rock hike, I was on the trail at Almaden Quicksilver County Park on Saturday. I hopeful [...]
It was a gray, foggy day at home. At Castle Rock State Park the sun was occasionally out on the ridgelines but fog filled the creek beds, valleys, and hollows.
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&Earlier I wrote that I like to go on a New Years Day hike. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate this year. Then we did some family stuff before my kids headed back to school. Then I headed back to a busy first week of a new term at the college. By the time I [...]
Tom Steinstra in SFGate: “Bay Area waterfalls are great places to think about New Year’s resolutions.”
Although waterfalls provide some of the prettiest places in nature, it is the power and flow that stays with you long after the adventure is over.
The best time to experience this is now in the Bay Area, from New Year’s [...]
Quicksilver hike
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