Category Archives: Stories of my life

My mom… over 90 and still a swinger…

My mom, and my brother Sid, the pusher. They came down to San Diego last weekend to see Mollie, our 17-year-old, perform in a choir recital at her school, and watch her and the other cheerleaders at the senior night … Continue reading

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The last sunrise…

Okay… once again, not technically the ‘last’ sunrise… we should have a few more… at least until the election results are in… But these are the last of the photos I took during my early morning drive down the California … Continue reading

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The last sunset…

Okay, obviously these aren’t the last sunset in any literal sense. They are just the last photos of that one sunset I took from the Berkeley hills on my last Bay Area adventure. I know I took too many pictures, … Continue reading

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What you really don’t want to see when you have already been stuck in L.A. traffic for hours…

So there I was, on the last stretch back to San Diego after my latest adventures in the Bay Area. Los Angeles traffic had been stop and go since I left the coast. Google maps was pissing me off. It … Continue reading

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Things that can go horribly wrong when you take photos… part 1…

One thing that can go wrong is ‘camera shake’… especially when you are using a zoom lens in low light. This is why they invented the ‘tripod’. I have one. I forgot to bring it when I took these pictures … Continue reading

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What? We are almost at the end of the exciting stories and pictures of your latest adventure to the Bay Area? Tell me it ain’t so, cousin Arthur!

Yes, little cousin Campbell, I am afraid that is absolutely true. Oh, I still have a few posts to do, but we are nearing the end of the journey. I sure had fun hanging out with you, little guy. And … Continue reading

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We interrupt these pictures of sunsets to bring you… uh… pictures of a sunrise…

I am just, in my own clever way, reminding you that, on the way back South from my recent adventures in the Bay Area, I did get up at 3:30 in the morning, just to get you some pictures of … Continue reading

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Geeze, Arthur, enough with the pictures of the sunset, for cryin’ out loud…

I know, I took a lot of photos that night I went up into the Berkeley hills to watch the sun set over San Francisco. The thing is… hey, thing, how’s it going?… that digital cameras let you take a … Continue reading

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Meetin’ some mammals… part 7…(Or): You otter behave yourself…

Yes, yet again I stopped, on my way down the California coast, after my adventures in the Bay Area and a brief stop to help out with my cousin’s kids in Santa Cruz, in Morro Bay, to see the sea … Continue reading

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Even more San Francisco sunset pictures… because Sunday is a slow day… and I have a lot of them…

That right there might be one of the most beautiful pictures I ever took. Look at that wobbly sun! I stayed up on the hill above Berkeley, just a few miles from my mom’s house, for almost three hours. I … Continue reading

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