Port of L.A.

ocw/27dec08

snow at last

moving closer to town after a foot of snow: actually much more gear
than this: and now there's even more snow, too deep for wheels, and
I'll be using a plastic sled to move more stuff like the satellite dish

honey lake valley

at night

Moonlight Fire, Sept 2007

Near Susanville CA. The fire, behind Diamond Mtn, is illuminating the
fire's own smoke plume from below. The name of the fire does not mean
that 'moonlight' is involved here.

early November '08 at home

hillside near Cheney Creek Road

boom!

Cannon outside the gunsmithing department at Lassen College,
Susanville, California

new toy Nov 29 2008

"new" old Vivitar 600mm long lens with my old Asahi Pentax KX

Shelties

a neighbor's Shelty pups, they love to lick my (salty) hands

1851 Navy revolver

1851n Navy revolver reproduction (Cabela's)

Mariposa lily

Calochortus leichtlinii Hook.
"Mariposa lily"

lucky 13

(lucky) 13 days old Luna

disassembled again

in the (gunshop) classroom, susanville california

disassembled

in the (gunshop) classroom, susanville california

biter

the donkey was continually jumping up on the horse and biting it
around the neck!

green stuff

i just love that green stuff!

the view

it's the view!

luna

Luna with eyepiece-projection photography: Nikon spotting scope and
Canon point-and-shoot camera

neighbors

my neighbors some mornings

the Donkey Corral

view of the Donkey Corral from 3.4 miles away; eyepiece projection
photography with a Nikon scope

neighbors

some yummy neighbors

susanville grocery store from 3 miles away

susanville grocery outlet from three miles away, digi-scoping
(eyepiece projection photography) with a spotting scope

digi-scoping

First experiments in digi-scoping -- holding a camera phone up against the eyepiece of a spotting scope

bigfoot

mouseprints

John Adams quote

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams, U.S. diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)

the honey lake valley

Overlooking Susanville and the Honey Lake Valley this morning

shoes for the snow

Here in the far-northeast corner of California, NOT on the Left Coast

Happy New Year from Lassen County, California

May this year be better for you than the last!



"When they call the role in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'" -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (1858-1919)

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
-- Voltaire, Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737: French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694-1778)