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Archive for October, 2009

See Ya Later Insta Gator


Bye-Bye San Diego, see ya in a week. Miss me?????

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Black and Blue Pink

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In the pink


Rise and Shine


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Coronado Bridge sunrise

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Stealth Sunrise

Good Morning San Diego,

So do you see what has been sneaking up on you today? The sun, and the the sailors, both stealth, both making my day better….


Tuesday Tales


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Rosy Glow Sunrise

Good Morning San Diego,

Cloud cover is interfering with my morning meditations again. I had to be quick to even get a little lightness for you this morning.  Better get your fill while you can, one more sunrise and then it is cold turkey for you until November 5th.  Then you will have to do with days-old photos of Seattle sunrises. We will see if Washington can compete…..


Nooner or Sooner?


Just Waking

Just Waking

Good Morning San Diego,

Hah!!! Don’t tell me you don’t know what a “Nooner” is…You weren’t born yesterday.  A Nooner is when you have to wait till lunchtime to complete what you started early this morning when you first woke up, but were too tired (or too late for work, like me) to “finish”.  So here is my “Nooner” a little late but very satisfying anyway…….

Silloette Sunrise

Silhouette Sunrise


Sunday Secret


Secret Sunrise

Secret Sunrise

Good Morning San Diego,

Hiding the sunrise again, are we? Well, yesterday I had to go all the way to Campo to catch the sunrise:

East County Sunrise

East County Sunrise

Pictures out of the bouncing truck window are not easy…

Cactus Shadow

Cactus Shadow

This is what sunrise does to the landscape in Campo. No water, no boats, but Sage flowers and shadows.

Campo Sunrise on Rocks

Campo Sunrise on Rocks

Thanksgiving on the hoof

Thanksgiving on the hoof

Campo, CA is the home to our Thanksgiving dinner, he and 15 of his friends will be joining us and our friends for the holiday…..

Tennis Luncheon table

Tennis Luncheon table

Thanks to my friend Dottie, and her decorations, my tennis friends ate, drank and were not named Mary….


Friday Finally


Pink and purple sunrise

Pink and purple sunrise

Gold Cloud Rise

Gold Cloud Rise

Rays peek over San Diego Harbor

Rays peek over San Diego Harbor

Good Morning all you Foamers,

Did you know that on this day in  1824 the 1st steam locomotive is introduced? Are you  just too exited? Can’t wait to see the next boxcar go by? Know how much the locomotive weighs and what color it should be painted? Now I’m convinced. You are a foamer….



Bright Bay

Bright Bay

Good Morning Grumpasaurus,

Well how are you this morning? A little grouchy because you slept in and missed it? Hard nite last night? Humpday (Wednesday, silly, not the other kind) was a little harder to get through this week than you anticipated? Ok get over it! It is Thursday, one day closer to Friday… You can make it if you try. Double up on those beans in your coffee and get outta here already, or you’ll be late again…..


Clearly San Diego


Clearly Rising

Clearly Rising

Sunrise Tug

Sunrise Tug

Good Morning Early Riser,

Check out our incredible sunrise this morning.  Not a cloud in the brightening sky.  We are having a mini-Santa Anna, our whole week should look like this.  Rising early has its rewards…..


Tuesday Tales


Tuesday Thunder

Tuesday Thunder

Good Morning San Diego,

Top O’ Tuesday to ye. Not a fab rise like I was hoping but not all bad. I’ll keep working with that old God Oden, and get him to blow away some of these pesky white things that get in the way of my grandpa “Sol”. When he is not around things don’t run quite as smoothly as they should. Even the Chargers could not keep their gaps closed yesterday. It must be all the weather’s fault….



Baby Blue Monday

Baby Blue Monday

Good Morning San Diego,

Back to Blue. Enjoy the soft sunrises for a while until the marine layer clears again. A few clouds and a visible sunrise is what I am waiting for. You will know when that happens you will hear the scream of delight all the way Point Loma.



Another Blue Sunday

Another Blue Sunday

Good Morning San Diego,

Got the Blues? Just wait awhile and a little sunshine should cheer up your morning. Or just drive 5 minuets east shedding your coat, then taking off your sweater, then saying “Damn” I should have worn shorts.  Or conversly, drive from inland towards the coast wearing your hawaiian shirt, board shorts and flip flops, slathered in sunscreen, and say “Damn” I should have worn a jacket!


Good Morning Grayson


Foggy Morning

Foggy Morning

 I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow, I learn by going where I have to go.    

  Theodore Roethke

Not me! I wake to wake, and take my waking early, so the day can lead me by the hand into the days next inspiration. Todays gift  is a blank canvas, washed in white, prepared by mother nature for us to inspire creativity. The color white is the presence of all colors in one, spin a color wheel and the wheel turns white (not black, silly). So pick a color for today and make it spin out your way…. Rory T


Workin’ Early


2 on One

2 on One

Rising to the Right

Rising to the Right

Goin for the Gold

Goin for the Gold

Good Morning Threesom:

The military has always changed the meanings of words, as this 2 on 1 proves.. It must have been those martinis last night, but that goldend light is just way to bright for me this morning…


Sunrise on Time?


Good Morning Disappointment,

The sun was scheduled to rise at 6:58am this morning. I think some one lied. This photo was taken at 7:00, although two minutes late, I think there would be less white if you were looking at a blank page….

Sunrise?

Sunrise?


On a Clear Day


Good Morning Hawkeye,

Today you can see your nest on the top of the tabletop mountain all the way into Mexico.  I stood on my tippytoes to see if I could see the smog cloud over Mexico City. It was clear, but not that clear…..

Clear view to Mexico

Clear view to Mexico

Darkest just before dawn

Darkest just before dawn


Wet One


Sunrise over Coronado Bridge

Sunrise over Coronado Bridge

Dont blink or you will miss it

Dont blink or you will miss it

Good Morning Wet Willie,

What is that liquid stuff falling from the sky? Please send us some more, I like it…..


Chalk La Strada


They eyes have it

They eyes have it

Little Italy Chalk La Strada (chalk on the street) on Sunday for Columbus Day Festa sent all the contestants home with colored chalk dust in their hair and a major accomplishment under their belt. Amazing to know that the street sweeper and a hose will be destroying this today.  For more photos click on this:   to my web album


Sunday Morning


Sunday Blues

Sunday Blues

Good Morning San Diego,

Here is your wake up call.  Blue Skys, Blue water, Blue boats, not much sun to see yet…

Sh** Cake Card

Sh** Cake Card

4 by 4

4 by 4

 

Not smiling because of the blue sunrise??? Well, these put a lot of smiles on the faces of our friends at a little birthday party we went to last night… “Happy 70th Joe Ringe”, great friends, great family, great Frying Joe….


Good Grey Day


Blue Grey

Blue Grey

I’ve tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
Alberto Giacometti


Rising to the Right


Rising Right

Rising Right

Rising Between

Rising Between

All that glitters

All that glitters

 

Good Morning all you Thursday Club members. Here is my reason for getting up early in the morning. Not only does it irritate the birds I scare off of my balcony, but it starts my day with a little “Cup ‘O’ Gold” to brighten up my day. It is really hard to keep my eyes closed when mother nature is sending me this kind of spectacular wake up call…


Tuesday Lite


Good Afternoon San Diego,

Did you see the sunrise today? I did. 

Tuesday Light

Tuesday Light

I was just a little lagging in posting for you.  Busy morning, just a little cold, I wore a sweater, can you believe it? Now at 1pm it is typical SD, 70s blue sky and amazingly clear.  Kisses to the SD gods of the weather, we are blessed.  Shorts in October, Hello!!!…..what could be better?


Monday


San Diego Rising

San Diego Rising

Good Morning San Diego, and OmmPaPa to  you too.

Is that light to bright for you?  Did you get your fill of drindil skirts and overflowing beer steins over the weekend? Or did you get a krick in your neck watching the Blue Angels over Miramar? Or maybe you are still a little blue and goosebumpy from all those lobsters you went diving for at 6am in the surf when lobster season opened this weekend. Maybe you did all three and have to call in too tired “and “sick” to go to work this morning?????


Saturday


Fog Rising

Fog Rising

SWYC and SDYC misty morning

SWYC and SDYC misty morning

Foggy, foggy dew, or don’t, whatever.  We still have an amazing  view no matter how many leagues you can see….


Fire in the sky Friday


Good evening San Diego,

This morning was a fog fest again, no sunrise to see, so here is the sunset instead….

Red Sky at Night Sailors Delight

Red Sky at Night Sailors Delight