California Holiday Spring 2011

Remember- you can click on the picture to enlarge it.
Springtime is usually a slow time in our work- a good time to go somewhere warmer.

Starting out from 1307 Kingston St.
Note the snow still on the lawn
Ruth windblown at Rowena Crest looking east up the Columbia River Gorge
Historic Columbia River Highway
Ruth at Multnomah Falls
Ruth at Oceanside Oregon.
Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge
Gloomy Heceta Head. A good place for a lighthouse. And a B+B
Heceta Head Lighthouse and B+B
The rocky Southern Oregon coast
California Redwoods in the Stout grove, Jedediah Smith Park.
Moss on trees in Jedediah Smith Park
Mainstreet in the 1850's gold-rush town of Weaverville, Ca.
The ground  and second floors did not always have the same owner- so separate entrances were needed
John ogling an AMX at the 'Kool April Nites' car show, Redding, Ca. A sharp car then. And still is.
AMX and Javelin site
A Santiago Calatrava designed pedestrian bridge in Redding. The pier is the gnomon of a large sundial.
An example of our new camper at the factory near Sacramento, Ca.
FourWheel Campers
Yosemite Park.  El Capitan in the mist
Cedar boughs. Yosemite Park.
Trail to Yosemite Falls.
Bridge over the Merced River.
The left (upstream) sidewalk is wider to accommodate the tripods of the Ansel Adams wannabes .
Ansel Adams / Half Dome in winter
Yosemite Valley
Half Dome at sunset.
El Capitan and La Capitana from the Tunnel Viewpoint
Actual oranges on actual orange trees
Giant Sequoias. Taller than John!
Ruth in front of the 'General Sherman' sequoia. The largest  living thing in the world.
A Toyota among the Sequoias
Joshua trees at Walker Pass, between Bakersfield and the Mojave Desert.
Striped Butte valley, from Mengel Pass.
Death Valley National Monument.
Blooming Prickly Pear cactus.
A few minutes after this picture was taken, I was changing out a flat tire on our truck.
Entrance to a Talc mine on the Warm Springs road. Death Valley NM
Ruth pointing to the tiny space under the bathroom sink, where Charles Manson was captured.
Barker Ranch, Death Valley NM.
Barker Ranch
Upper proterozoic tillite of the Kingston Peak formation
Barrel Cactus in Goler Wash.
A tricky bit on the Goler Wash road.
Not a scrape!
Campground in Ballarat. $3.00 per night
Beautiful downtown Ballarat.
Gitchermotorunnin
An ex Air Canada L-1011 at Mojave, Ca.
Do you have a satellite that needs launching?
The goofball and the Gipper
The Reagan Library
Air Force One
Malibu Beach north of Malibu Lagoon
Brown pelicans flying over Malibu Beach
The view over the gate at Fifth Helena, where Marilyn Monroe was found dead
Ruth at the door to 5th Helena
Recently sold
Shuttle trams at Disneyland
Just a kid. A really big kid.
I need a cap
Norton Manx. Looking like it's doing a ton just sitting there.
Even his star don't get no respect.
Rodney Dangerfield on the Tonight Show
Calla Lily
The house on Waverly Drive where the LaBiancas were murdered by the Manson Family
We looked and looked and looked for his grave, and when we finally found it, we saw that we had missed it by-
That much
"Benjamin. . . .Benjamin. It's a perfectly good name. It's in the bible. Bugsy is an animal"
Bugsy, but not to his face.
Behind there, behind the spkes, behind the color-coordinated razor wire, behind the guard towers and searchlights. . .
lives Jack Nicholson
In 1969, at 10050 Cielo drive, the Manson family murdered Sharon Tate
Los Angeles freeway scene.
Marinara? Alfredo?
Watts Towers of Simon Rodia
Watts Towers detail
Star Jasmine, often smelled before seen
My Ruth at the Getty Villa
Video
Site of the (burned down in 1970) Spahn movie ranch. Base of operations for the Manson family.
The 'East Temple' in Zion National Park
Mountain of white Navajo Sandstone
Ruth at Bryce Canyon
'Our Lady of the Rockies' looming above Butte, Mt.
The Sweetgrass Hills.  We must be getting close to home.
Geological Map (a BIG .pdf)


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