This page contains a collection of miscellaneous photos shot throughout the year.
A lovely rainbow over Hangar One |
A lovely rainbow over Hangar One |
A lovely rainbow over Hangar One |
Lori and I enjoy our first yerba mate |
Ames and the USDA set up this trap to relocate the increasing number of turkeys bothering researchers |
In fourth or fifth grade, I spent a week at Jones Gulch in a school program. I don't have much recollection from the experience except what was preserved in a photograph: Garth Lien shouting because he had a tick. Nonetheless, when POST advertised the hike, I signed up in the hope that I might remember something.
The YMCA at Jones Gulch provides a camping experience for youth in San Mateo County. Due to budgetary issues, they were contemplating selling the property to loggers. POST stepped in, purchased the land, and provided an easement back to the 'Y'.
I may have remembered the archery targets.
Our group on the POST hike to Jones Gulch |
Babble is 40! |
Giant wakerobin |
Moss grows on the old oaks |
The NASA DC-8 makes a couple of low passes over Moffett Field on its way from Building 703 in Palmdale, CA, to its final resting place at the Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where it will be used to train future aircraft technicians by providing real-world experience in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program. |
Bill discusses the menu and lots of other things |
Jon, Foroogh, Lori, and Bill discuss stuff |
Lori has something to say to Foroogh, Bill, and Jon |
Lunch with Bill, Lori, Marty, Foroogh, Jon, and Nan |
Lori and Bill |
Foroogh and Jon |
Lori and I hiked a trail we had never hiked before. We hiked from the Grabtown Gulch trailhead in the Purisima Creek Redwoods Preserve via the Irish Ridge Trail to the Elbow Tree. The trail was stunning: huge redwoods, sorrel, huckleberry, tanoak, and the Elbow Tree.
A framed view to the ocean |
Somewhere. In the haze. Is San Francisco. |
Lori and the Elbow Tree |
Lori and the Elbow Tree |
Lots and lots of oxalis! |
Lots and lots of redwood sorrel! |
California fetid adderstongue |
We started with the easy parking at the Audrey Rust parking lot, but scooted over to the forests in the Skyline Ridge OSP. We were amazed by the wildflower display at the end of June.
Ruby chalice clarkia |
Aquatic garter snake |
Coulter's matilija poppy |
A nice little tour of Monte Bello Open Space Preserve and a bit of Los Trancos OSP from the parking lot in Skyline Ridge OSP, including Black Mountain. There is still some water flowing in Stevens Creek in mid-july.
Red baneberry |
Arctic sweet coltsfoot |
Steve, Kyle, and I caught up at the Local Union 271 in Palo Alto |
I saw a hawk go after a rabbit and then pause for a moment in the tree outside my window after he missed |
The old SOFIA mural in the N232 lobby was just replaced by one for Artemis |
Packets of roof panels are hoisted in place and secured by climbers until they can be installed |
A new artistic gate to the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge highlights the local denizens was installed along the new Flyway trail at the Bedwell Bayfront Park |
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