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My Yosemite adventure… part 4… the wildlife… part 2… where I was attacked and eaten by a bear…

Yes, these two blurry images capture the moment before my demise… It was quite painful, being eaten by a bear, but the scenery was beautiful, and I did get some good shots of the bear. No, silly, I didn’t get … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 3… the wildlife… part 1…

Another good thing about the huge wildfires that closed Yosemite until just before I took my little road trip there, is that, because there were almost no people around, I had the best wildlife experiences of my life there on … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 2… Half Dome, a very famous rock… or, well, uh, half of a very famous rock?… a very famous half-rock?…a famous rock half?…

As I said in the first three posts in this series… what?… yes, I know, this is titled ‘part 2’, but there were two posts before part 1, that were really part of… you know, you should really try to … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 1…

Yes, I know, I already did two posts about this adventure, so the title will confuse people. Good. I can’t explain, over and over in every upcoming post, how the fires burning around Yosemite made it possible for me to … Continue reading

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Okay, you guessed it, I went to Yosemite… (with some disturbing photos of a smoldering California)…

I was only planning on doing a day trip, but I ended up staying over night. I took a lot of pictures. I have to think about how to present them, and which to post, because this is only the … Continue reading

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Okay, try to guess where I went on my latest adventure… I will give you some hints…

There I am, smack-dab in the middle of… my most recent adventure. Try to guess where I went. Here are some more hints. The place I went has a river… and some streams. Some of these streams fall for quite … Continue reading

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Today, I traveled all around the world, and all I got you was a bunch of lousy flower pictures… part 2… (including a picture of a rock that looks like Darth Vader)…

Okay, the title of this post is a total lie. First of all, I didn’t travel around the world today… that was yesterday now. Because it is the next morning. Also, this post contains not one single photo of a … Continue reading

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San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog, more dogs on blogs, and some splashy water… oh, and a really close up picture of the moon…

The city. The bridge. A cute dog. One of the things I do when I come back the Bay Area to visit my mom and my friends, and end up going down to the bay to pet other people’s dogs … Continue reading

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Flowers and love and stuff…

Back in the Bay Area, back in the house where I grew up, back in the backyard where I played as a child. I know, every time I come back, I do posts about the backyard. I love the backyard. … Continue reading

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Desert vistas… the final chapter… with a free game of ‘spot the dinosaur’ thrown in!

Nearing the final leg of my journey back from Arizona, descending from the mountain pass and getting ready to turn left… South… so as to end up in San Diego and not… perish the thought… in Los Angeles… I took … Continue reading

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