In February 2001, Lura, Matt, Debra and myself took off in boat to see whales. The whales surfaced very quickly. Too quickly for my cheap digital camera. After missing several surfaces, I decided that I’d have to stage some shots and then add detail later. These are very crude photo edits. [...]
Back in February 2002, Lura and I went to the Cactus Garden inside San Diego’s Balboa Park.
Photo Gallery For Cactus Garden - Balboa Park, San Diego (2002)
Between the big fires of 2003 and 2007, there was a small fire in the Rancho San Pasqual valley that was contained quickly.
Photo Gallery For Bandy Canyon Fire
If you’ve driven around Southern California, then you’ve seen the Prohibido sign. It basically is warning drivers to avoid mowing down future taxpayers as they decide which side of the freeway is el Norte.
Seattle has it’s own version of the sign. Notice the flying laptop? Maybe Washington drivers are more likely to slow down [...]
Seems there are two camps of people out there. Camp one are fans of Seattle and believe that this blog has been too harsh on the area. One person wrote me and stated with the exception of coffee, I wasn’t singing the praises of Seattle enough. That’s like saying with the exception of X-MAS, that [...]
Rainman was lost close to the Harris Fire during the fire evacuations on Monday. We just got the good news that when our friend returned to her house, Rainman was there waiting for her.
Rainman was the cat I taught how to hand-shake. (YouTube videos: p1,p2)
Rainman Photo Gallery
SignOnSanDiego just posted an all clear for my old neighborhood of Rancho San Pasqual.
Escondido has reopened two more neighborhoods to evacuated residents: Rancho San Pasqual and Rancho Vista Monte, both on the eastern part of town.
No homes were damaged or destroyed in those areas.
Aerial photo taken of Rancho San Pasqual prior to the development of [...]
Here is a list of what I found to be the best resources for information online dealing with the San Diego Fires of October 2007. UPDATED Wednesday 6 AM.
Radio:
KFMB 760 AM
KOGO 600 AM (some streaming problems)
XM 247 (no online stream)
Blogs:
Cat Dirt Sez
And Still I Persist ( back up!)
SignOnSanDiego (now on BlogSpot)
Bubble Info
Live Journal
Rich Knitter
Media:
KPBS (back [...]
History is repeating itself. Fires have broken out in North, East and South county. Below is a map of the fires put on the news this morning.
Just like 2003, our old neighborhood in East Escondido is being threatened by the San Pasqual Valley Fire. Our friend and Rainman are near the Harris Fire.
Here is [...]
Tomorrow I’m flying back to San Diego for a week. My new job wants to meet me. Well kinda.
