You know, there is a reason they call it the ‘Golden’ Gate bridge…

And it has nothing to do with that gold rush thing.

So of course while I was visiting my mom in the Bay Area, I went up into the Berkeley Hills to get some sunset pictures for you. Wrong time of year for nice sunsets, and the haze from the fires that are still filling the sky with smoke in California, mixed with a light misty fog, did not bode well for a nice sunset.

But I stuck around… for you.

A little color began to appear in the sky.

Not the reds and pinks we all like so much, but still, very nice.

It had a feel to it.

It looks a little different without the telephoto lens.

But you take what you get with Mother Nature.

Yup.

But that is about as golden as golden gets.

So we will take it.

Right?

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Just more dew-kissed roses… part 2…

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Just more dew-kissed roses… part 1…

Hey, I said no more pictures of flowers from my mom’s garden. I never said, when I drove all the way from San Diego to the San Francisco Bay Area to visit her that I wouldn’t take a side trip to the world famous Berkeley Botanical Rode Gardens.

Also, the ‘dew’ is totally fake. I brought along my little spray-mister bottle.

And the roses are real, grown by rose breeders all over the world.

So they are rare roses, unseen by many people.

But now you see them too, you lucky duck!

That one hardly even looks like a rose, but it does have a little green ladybug type visitor.

Oh, Mother Nature, you rock!

You do like your colors.

I like them too.

I just like to moisten them a little, for the photographic effect.

Hello, bee.

And another of those little bugs. I did not spray the insects, just so you know. No living things were moistened in the making of this post.

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tRump sends ICE agents to ‘Small World’ ride to round up all those “little illegal immigrants” taking jobs from Animatronic American children…

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Circular logic… part 2…

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Circular logic… part 1…

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Some Halloweenie animal photos from my trip to the Bay Area to visit my mom…

Black cat, evil stare, what else is there to say?

A lone crow in a dead tree making his mournful caw.

I like crows. They have attitude.

They are beautiful birds.

Don’t confuse them with ravens. They hate that. Thus quoth I.

They are pretty dang smart… for birds.

They are well adapted to finding food in all environments.

This guy got tired of me pointing my telephoto lens at him.

“I am outa here”, he said, with a flap of dark wings. Probably going off to look for a murder. (If you got that last bit, you know about crows).

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No, these are definitely NOT more pictures of flowers from my mom’s garden, because I promised I was done with that…

See, that is obviously one of the branches of the plum tree in my mom’s backyard, covered with interesting things. I am back in San Diego again, after my visit to my mom in the Bay Area.

I know that looks like a picture of a flower, but it is an experiment in composition.

That flower just jumped in the way and totally photobombed me!

The flower is barely in focus. That is a photo of some cool leaf edges.

That was for a horticultural medical online site. I am pretty sure that rose has the chicken pocks.

Baby flowers don’t count. Everybody loves babies.

See, what is that? It is spreading to other flowers on the same rosebush. Maybe it is the Pink Death, come to stalk the land again.

Just checking how far the disease had spread.

Daisies aren’t real flowers. They are more like a weed. Ask any gardener.

Same with gernaiums.

Origami?

Leaves… with neat patterns on them.

More lichen and moss.

Those are tomato flowers, but look at the sweet moss growing on the fence.

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Yeah, I wrote a rap song for lazy people… as you would know… if you listened to my podcast…

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Did you know that the Grim Reaper sells his own brand of hot sauce?

You would, if you listened to my podcast…

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