Autumn sunshine

Some images from my neighborhood in San Ramon on a bright, sunny day in early December.

As I write this it is gray and rainy outside and the weather forecast calls for 7 more days of rain in San Ramon....

Autumn leaves on the trees.

A Christmas Zebra.

This restored Ford Model A has a distinct engine sound which I often hear from blocks away. I usually rush inside to get my camera, but I am always too late... Today I finally caught a shot of it with my camera as he roared by doing at least 20 in a 25 zone!

And a parachuting polar bear!

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Arizona Thanksgiving Day

Hike in Thunderbird Park

Peoria, AZ

There was a cold north wind blowing on Thanksgiving Day in Thunderbird Park.

A cloudless sky, a rocky trail....

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Dublin Hills hike

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The sun is about to set on a surprisingly warm and windy November Sunday.

A gusty, warm, almost hot wind blows across the grassland...

grassland formerly parched by the hot Summer, recently moistened like a sponge by a gentle Autumn rain.....

After sunset,

Darkness envelopes the Dublin Hills pasture land,

Coyotes begin howling and wailing deep in the neighboring canyons....

Cows continue grazing as their calves lie down to sleep....

Feral pigs move boldly out into the open on the grazing land grunting and rooting around,

indifferent,

yet at the same time menacingly acknowledging my presence as I hike back along the ranch road...

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Fall colors

San Ramon, CA

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Today's wispy high clouds.... Perhaps some rain in our future?

Election Day!

Signs of Autumn in November...

Cal High's football field last Sunday.

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Early one Sunday morning I found this...

Egret in a Redwood in San Ramon.....

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October is Fleet Week in San Francisco and the Blue Angels are back!

Blue Angel 2 executing a Pitch-up Right Break Overhead Approach

Runway Two-Eight Right at SFO...

(The picture doesn't do them justice...

...you really had to be there!)

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Sept. 19, 2010

A late Summer evening in the Tri Valley Area.

A few clouds lingering from a cold front that passed through without dropping any rain,

the moon will be full in a couple of nights....

The day's last rays of sunshine light up the ridgetops of the Ohlone Wilderness south of Pleasanton.

Mount Diablo at sunset.

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A peaceful Summer evening at the pond....

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View from the top of Mission Peak

Sept. 4, 2010

Looking North from the top of Mission Peak over Sunol Valley, with Pleasanton and Dublin beyond. San Ramon is hidden behind Pleasanton Ridge which is just beyond the golf course. Mount Diablo is in the distance.

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ILS 28R approach into KSFO.

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At the beginning of our hike the morning fog still covered Las Trampas ridge.

By the time we had climbed to the top the fog was gone.

Redtail hawk on patrol.

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Rock City

Mt. Diablo, California

July 30, 2010

A cloudless Summer sky on a warm afternoon on Mount Diablo.

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A hungry racoon goes shopping in Rock City....

"Why do they put the front door way up here?..."

"Hey, what do all these humans want?..."

Going....

Going.....

Gone!

Emerging with the goods!