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Poverty among riches: Third-world living in the first-world…

Was that picture taken in Bangladesh? Nope. I took these on the same day I took the pictures from the edge of the San Francisco Bay and the sunset photos from up in the hills. This is America. There are … Continue reading

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Seriously, Arthur, another post of random yet admittedly beautiful photos of the sun setting over the San Francisco Bay???… part 1…

Yup. Pretty much.

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San Francisco, the light side and the dark side, the high and low, and the many moods of the mysterious Lady by the Bay…

Okay, so I got carried away with the title. I could have gone with: San Francisco, from two points of view, or something like that. But the title sometimes lures unsuspecting victims into the clutches of my blog… so… yeah… … Continue reading

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Well, I am back in San Diego…

Technically speaking, that picture was taken while I was still at my mom’s house in the Bay Area for Christmas. I took it with my laptop. I was setting up my new digital microscope for some pictures, and that reminded … Continue reading

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Lights, camera, action; fun with ‘wiggly photography’… part 3… the final chapter?

No, this won’t be the final chapter. These are just the last of the photos I have already taken, using my new low-light-long-shutter-opening-wiggling-the-camera-around-like-a-maniac-and-trying-to-make-art-technique. These are photos I took from the mountain overlooking the San Francisco Bay. You can see the … Continue reading

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Yes, that is a nice photo of the Golden Gate Bridge, but this post also has cute dogs and my lovely daughter in it…

A view of the Golden Gate, across the waters of the San Francisco Bay. And my sweet, smart and kind younger daughter, Mollie. And that is Winston, a very nice dog that Mollie and I met. Because we were at … Continue reading

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Just more pictures of Christmas time in the Bay Area… and dogs…

Sometimes… often for me… you just meet a dog and fall in love. It was like that with Oso. He belongs to a nice couple that my daughter Mollie and I ran into down at the dog park by the … Continue reading

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A city by the bay, and a daughter by the bay, and some dogs by the bay, and some birds in the bay… part 1…

My younger daughter, Mollie, and I went down to that dog park by the bay yesterday. You know I do that when I miss my dogs back in San Diego. I cheat on them with other dogs. It was a … Continue reading

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A fancy table and a more-or-less-traditional English Christmas dinner…

Christmas is a little subdued this year. Normally, there are a lot more people at my mom’s house in the Bay Area, but due to many reasons, two brothers are not here. That means that nieces and nephews are also … Continue reading

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Goodbye, San Francisco…

Yes, I know, I left the Bay Area last week… but I had to finish off the Yosemite pictures. These are the last photos of my trip to visit my mom for her 95th birthday. I stopped, on my way … Continue reading

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