Tag Archives: southern california

Why do I look so happy?

Because I am on one of these… And I was zipping around San Diego Bay with both my daughters in town at the same time Mollie and her new boyfriend, Ben. They are almost annoyingly adorable. Jessica and her husband … Continue reading

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Son of a beach!!!… part 2… also, the final part…

Whooooo!!! Wheeeee! The paddle board guy had some real advantages. The board is bigger and more buoyant. He could use the paddle for balance. And keep going when the wave died out. Wait… is that guy running on water? Small … Continue reading

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Son of a beach!!!… part 1…

Both my daughters are in town, so we had a picnic down at the beach. More people were in the water than beside it. It was a little overcast, and very steamy. This is in San Diego, in Southern California, … Continue reading

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Pictures… of stuff… and things… and whatnot…

More photos I took at my job as a security guard in Southern California. Once again, this is a mix of images from my real camera and my phone camera. I think the first half is the real camera. On … Continue reading

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Clouds… because everybody loves clouds, right?

Clouds reflected in glass. Some of these I took with my camera, and some with the camera on my phone… in my phone? I guess if you can’t tell which is which… It doesn’t really matter. I took all of … Continue reading

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I worked a 16-hour shift yesterday, but I did finally get a really bad photo of one of those sneaky coyotes…

I know, it’s bad. I said it was. It was four in the morning, and I had no time to aim my phone because those varmints are fast. No, that isn’t a sunset. That is a San Diego sunrise. My … Continue reading

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Some sunsets; sum sunsets, sun somesets, some sonsets, somesunsets…

I call that one: ‘dinner at sunset’. I call that one: a photo of a sunset. I don’t really go to the trouble of naming all my photos. That would be silly. I am not sure if that classifies as … Continue reading

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A wildlife adventure from the jungles of San Diego… part 2…

Beneath the calm surface of the water lurks grim death with razor-sharp teeth. As my mom likes to say: Nature in the wild is seldom mild. That is true even here in San Diego. The waving palms are just camouflage … Continue reading

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A wildlife adventure from the jungles of San Diego… part 1…

Hello, this is your nature guide, Arthur, speaking to you from deepest, darkest San Diego California. Today, we will observe the splendor and terror that is nature in the wild. Hey kid, you might want to get out of the … Continue reading

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More ‘wet webs’… and yes, that might be a dog hair stuck to that web, over on the left…

I had fun taking some photos of those funnel-web spider webs on that misty morning when they were covered with little drops. And I said that when the big garden spiders showed up, I would do the same thing. But … Continue reading

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