Treeline Mira Mar

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I'm not sure what it is, but I find black and white photos so appealing.

It's simple but I find it attractive.

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Sail Boat creativity

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I love sail boats, especially on the water.

I played a little with photoshop.

Balboa Park a great day out

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For my birthday my lovely Lee took me to Sea World, where we had a great time. We were a little disappointed with the shows but we enjoyed the wildlife, rides and each others company.

The following day I took her somewhere she's never been - Balboa Park. She's been to the zoo but she didn't realize the zoo was just a portion of the park area. We walked through an art bazaar, the international block, many gardens and past all the museums (yes past them, unlike Paris they don't really have a good passport price structure.) I think someone failed at math when it came to their pricing structure. The museums we wanted to go through cost $6 per adult. The park sells passports for $39 which is good for 5 museums. So I can pay $39 for 5 museums or $6 per museum individually and spend $30 total. Now we didn't check the price of every museum, only the ones we were interested in. Not sure where the savings were.

We finished in the beautiful Inez Grant Memorial rose garden and the Desert garden to the east of the park. I believe the park has 14 gardens.

If you're into gardens, museums, people watching, art and photoging, plan a day at Balboa Park with someone special. It will not disappoint. You can spend the day there and not spend a dime, not including museums. Parking is free.

Attached are some of my images from our day at the park.

You probably can't see her but the Lovely Lee is in this photo. 

Do you see it?

 

A great drive through the mountains

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I haven't blogged in awhile due to space availability. It looks now like Google up'ed my storage space. I'm hoping it's true.

Yesterday I took a trip through Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead to pick up some recalled product. I also stopped here and there to capture an image or two. I hope you enjoy them.

Lee's first Mt. Chickadee

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We created a mini bird feeding habitat a couple of weeks ago and the word has spread. It's not unusual to see 20-30 birds foraging on wild bird seed and sunflower seeds in our backyard now. It's great. I usually do a quick once over to make sure we don't have any new visitors and then go about my business.

Today Lee noticed we were entertaining a special visitor, not uncommon to the mountain range around us, but new to our feeder and a first sighting for Lee. It was great to see Lee's excitement because one like I said her first sighting and two she identified it on her own, well she identified the family not the species. Since she couldn't immediately put her hands on her binoculars she was forced to use her naked eye. I agreed with her first conclusion, I was also using my glasses dependent eye balls. After grabbing the camera, drinking two cups of coffee and finally capturing it's image, it was decided we were wrong. With the naked eye and the distance from the bird we couldn't see the white strip over it's eye. We mistaking thought it was a Black Capped Chickadee, which wasn't normally found in this area, as Lee pointed out to me. After looking at the images we could see the white strip and knew then it was a Mountain Chickadee, normally found in the mountains around us.

The chickadee looks a little haggard. Normally the feathers are very neat and dry, while these looked bunched and oily. Who knows what the story?

I hope you enjoy the photos.

Make a great day!