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Pictures of a desert sunrise… for you… and because of you…

So, as I stood on a desert hilltop not too long ago, the Led Zeppelin song ‘Kashmir’ floating through my head on a soft desert breeze, taking pictures of a magnificent sunrise, I realized something important. I wouldn’t be there … Continue reading

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A really cute dog, a really big cactus, an ocean, a desert… and some sharks…

So when I took Olivia, the little girl I babysit, to the aquarium in San Diego, I met this adorable little guy, a miniature border collie puppy… I can’t believe that was only yesterday… I was overlooking the Pacific Ocean, … Continue reading

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A desert sunrise… and a fish… because I can…

So right now, I am sitting in my daughter and her fiance’s apartment in Arizona. Once again, I woke up insanely early in the morning, just to get some extra cool pictures for you… this time of the sun rising … Continue reading

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We interrupt the regularly scheduled posts about our visiting English relatives for cute kid pics…

A pair of squishy faces!!! So I have spent the last two days at my babysitting job with our friends’ daughter, little Olivia. I took her to the aquarium here in San Diego, and my wife joined us there. Man, … Continue reading

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Even more fun with the English relatives…

Uh… no… those aren’t the English relatives… those are chairs… There I am, making sure that cousin Dot and cousin Lynne and cousin Lynne’s boyfriend, Malcolm, don’t fall in the fish pond. Now some of you may remember the botanical … Continue reading

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Uh… with all the problems the Catholic church is having with priests and children, does this seem like a good thing to hang in public???

This was carved into a door frame in Balboa Park in San Diego. I toyed with the idea of doing one of my ‘come up with a caption for this picture’ posts… but I assume you would all have just … Continue reading

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But does the horse have to be so… uh… anatomically correct???

Here we are on day two of the recent visit by our English cousins… We went to Balboa Park. I have never bothered to find out why there is a statute of El Cid there… That was the last view … Continue reading

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Origins of a real life hero…

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In which I finally tie in my visiting English relatives directly to dia de los muertos…

Here they are… the very last pictures of the first day with our relatives visiting from England… and our exploration of Old Town in San Diego… We have all learned a thing or two about the history of the region, … Continue reading

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Winter is coming… yay???

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