Sand, Sea and a Dog
Hi – This is Jerry.
Ophelia mentioned that we spent Christmas together in California. It was very cool. Here are some photos I took. Thumbnails appear below. Just click on the thumbnail for a larger picture.
(If the guy who complained last summer about this turning into a travel blog is reading – you should Stop Right Now. You will find this distressing. You have been warned!)
– Pebble Beach sunset
– A beach just past a mission.
– A marsh. (Notice how the sky has cleverly changed colour.)
– This tree is a tree next to a very important tree.
– Ophelia’s favourite dog just after I had read him chapter 2 of Why Truth Matters.
Copies of these prints are available at no good bookshops.
Happy New Year!
You have quite a gift for photography Jery that sunset picture is great.
Why is the tree important and why did you not photograph it instead?
I though a mission is something you send officials on. What is the beach to do with the mission?
The pictures are beautiful.
Wow, gorgeous!
One observes, with a certain wry resignation, that contrails are a significant part of a skyscape.
Eheu! Happy New Year anyway.
Thanks guys.
“Why is the tree important and why did you not photograph it instead?”
Because it is a Cypress tree all by itself. Yeah, maybe that would have been the one to photograph. Incompetence, I’m afraid.
Contrails absolutely are essential where you have a uniform blue sky. I used a poloarising filter on two of these shots to accentuate them.
Cor, saturation.
The caption to the not-the-Lone-Cypress one has been going round in my head since I saw it this morning:-
This tree
Is a tree
Next to a very important tree
VIT in a Berkeleyan sense? Is it more visually interesting than this tree?
I like Scout the best.
“Cor, saturation.”
There’s actually very little additional saturation in the sunset shot (plus 5 in PS). That’s pretty much what it looked like (if I’m wrong, I’m sure Ophelia will say so!).
Mind you, I am colour blind, so what do I know!
I can’t remember what VIT looks like – so who knows if it is more interesting!
Good gracious! What a delicate, sumptuous photographic bombshell it is this first day of January to view on N&C. I want – like, OB’s four-legged friend – this first day of 2008, to ape him and roll over on the Hal ‘penny Bridge and gleefully say ‘what stunning photographs of Jeremy’s indeed’. There should bB&W team – a calendar of the exquisite snaps, produced? Thank you Jeremy for sharing them with us.
What a pleasant new start it is to the N&C New Year.
Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit. A prosperous New Year – to all who enter B&W’s house. Let there be a cead mile failte written on the N&C mat.
Go n-éirí an t-adh libh! Good luck! For the coming year.
Beannachtaí na Féile. Holiday greetings! to one and All.
Well I’m glad the dog’s so pleased with itself. The rest of us have to work.
On 8th Nov last “Kukur Tihar,” or “the festival of dogs,” was celebrated in every household in Nepal Yamapanchak was celebrated as a symbol of philosophy of co-existence of human beings with all other living things existing in nature by worshipping the crow, dog, cow and oxen since ancient times, as part of Nepali culture. The second day was dedicated entirely to dogs.
OB’s favourite dog – who, as Nick says – ‘looks very pleased with itself’ had also by all accounts celebrated its very own ‘day’ at Pebble beach. There is nothing like the philosophy of co – existence with other living things.
[recovering from protracted fit of laughter] [OK Jerry this is one time I really laughed at your jokes!]
If you think the dog looks pleased with himself, you should see Jerry.
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The sunset absolutely did look like that.
Here’s a nice shot of the VIT:
http://images.dpchallenge.com/images_challenge/721/Copyrighted_Image_Reuse_Prohibited_578722.jpg
or:
http://tinyurl.com/ypwfaa
Happy new year, everyone!
That’s a beauty, Doug! It gets Carmel bay in along with the VIT. That view of Carmel bay and the hills caused Jerry to say ‘Wow’ quite a few times as we drove up to it.
We visited Santa Cruz last Thursday – for a longer time and in a more circular fashion than we had intended. We thought we were taking Highway 1 through Santa Cruz and on up to SF, but instead found ourselves turning into a mall, then turning into it again, then turning into it again, like something in a dream, or Alice Through the Looking-glass. Why is Santa Cruz so secretive about how to stay on 1 rather than getting tangled up in downtown?! Sheesh.
Happy new year!
“Happy New Year!”
How Eurocentric of you, Ophelia. Is it the Chinese New Year, or the Jewish New Year? The correct greeting should have been
“Happy Days!”
Re. contrails: I’d say those were clouds, unless JS is prepared to vouch for actually seeing the squadron of fighters go over… Nice pics, anyway, beats the cr*p out of the grey English skies we’ve mostly had lately.
Oh dear! cough cough
Happy – erm – Happy January 1 for people who use the Gregorian calendar.
There were a lot of contrails at various times, I kept wondering why, myself; but I don’t remember if there were any while we were at Carmel River beach. Could have been though.
That’s a great picture of VIT. That shot wasn’t a possibility when we visited because the sun was (a) too bright; and (b) in the wrong place.
I’m pretty sure that they are mostly contrails. Dispersed, sure, but contrails, I think. There was an airport relatively nearby.
Ah. So we’ll have to go to Lone Cypress Point in the morning next time too. This time we always went to the right in the morning, to Asilomar and Pacific Grove; next time we’ll have to go left, to Bird Rock and Lone Cypress Point and Pescadero. Photographic duty!
I don’t know what happened to you there, OB. You’re supposed to take the notorious (for being frequently congested) “fish hook” from Hwy 1 to get onto Mission to get through the west side and then north to SF. How you got into a mall, I don’t know. Lousy signage? I’ve lived here so long, I guess I can’t say. Mall? What mall? The only one I know is Pacific Garden Mall, which I think would be improbable to accidently arrive at once, and next to impossible (for a brilliant woman such as yourself) to end up at twice.
As for the contrails, jets frequently follow the coastline of CA, so we frequently have contrails going from the NW to the SE here. I’m pretty sure those narrow lines in JS’s photos were anthropogenic, and not natural.
BTW, I spent a long weekend in Yosemite a few years ago, and every day jets made a grid pattern of contrails overhead. I’d never seen that before or since. Has anybody out there ever seen such a phenomenon? The first day, I assumed it was a bizzare coincidence, but 3 days in a row? No.
It wasn’t exactly a mall, perhaps…an outdoor uniform-looking agglomeration of buildings that looked sort of mallesque. I don’t know what happened either…I did manage to stay on 1 going north once before when it was 6 a.m. in winter and so pitch dark, whereas this time it was daylight.
The third time was really shocking, especially since we’d been glaring very carefully at signs the whole time. I thought we’d stepped into the Twilight Zone.
Fancy going on an ever so weensy visual stroll to Curracloe, Co Wexford, Ireland – after you have all taken a small breather from viewing beautiful Pebble Beach, etc. You can bring along your doggie, horse, or whatever pet you happen to own. I promise, that none of you, by the Curracloe ramble will be bored.
See: http://www.pbase.com/the_glebe/curracloe
Wexford people, by and large, are wholly big into horses and and all things pertaining to horse-racing. Specifically at this time of year. It is for them, better than Xmas. Fairyhouse and Tramore horse-racing time of year for them rules!
Have a small sunny south east birds eye view on me this happy new year day.
Slainte!
O ‘happy days’ reminds me of ‘Godspell’.
I watched this morning on the telly the classic film, Pollyanna.
So in my humble estimation we should call today: ‘The Official B&W Glad Day.’
I think I know what happened, OB. You made a 90 degree right turn when you should have stayed on a little longer and taken the offramp that goes off to the right (and then around, thus being known as the “fish hook”). Better luck next time…
[Sorry, if this bores people with no intention of coming near this area.]
People with no intention of coming near this area are being foolish. It’s a good area to come near.
I don’t like to encourage tourists*, but OB knows whereof she speaks (as usual).
*esp. in the months of July, August and September — Better weather than in 90% of North America
Doug
[Sorry, if this bores people with no intention of coming near this area.]
Not bored, just insanely jealous.
The white sand that doggie is joyfully kneading with his body looks exactly like snow – it is that snow-white!
“A beach past a mission”
‘footprints in the sand’ could – from my standpoint, have been the mission’s last recitation!
Tingey, I see that Kew opened a ground-breaking new glasshouse in 2006 — the Davies Alpine House? Have you by any chance visited it to date?
Moore On Your Mobile – Audio Guide
You can even eavesdrop on scientists, art historians and others discussing the artworks and their relationship to their surroundings. That sounds hip indeed!
I think there was a time we were walking back from the beach well after sunset, so that it was almost dark, when Cheryl remarked to Jeremy that she kept thinking the sand beside the boardwalk was snow. It did look like snow in the dark (and of course they expect to see snow, after all this time in Toronto).
Yeah, OB, even in the daylight judging from the snapshot – it looks terribly like snow.
Doug, is very fortunate to live permanently beside such a beautiful [utterly European-ish, in appearance] environment.
You know, I was thinking that if doggie was turned upside down one could get a good look at his two jaws? :-)! Then again, if he was disturbed from his snow-like snug position he might just snarl! Grrrooowwwlll!
Temps in Toronto at this time of year must be well in the double minus figures!
I believe, from reading the papers, that Great Britain is very soon to expect snow showers. Ireland, usually gets the tail end of British weather. So we had better get prepared to wrap up warmly.
I could visualise doggie walking on the moon, but most definitely – not on PB air.
M-T O’L, I don’t live near the VIT. That’s for people with something I’m lacking. [$$$] However, it’s only a little over an hour’s drive away, assuming normal traffic.
To continue the travelogue, though, I’ll note that I am indeed fortunate to live about a 10 minute’s walk away from here:
http://vacationsantacruz.com/L-p-beach_sunrise.jpg
or:
http://tinyurl.com/27juap
That’s a shot looking south from Seabright Beach across the Monterey Bay.
Or for people who work for people with something I’m lacking [$$$]. It’s not a bad fringe benefit of my day job, I have to admit…
I’m not religious (god forbid!), but I do say, “Count your blessings.” I try to.
Sweet gig, OB.
Anent Allen Esterson’s remarks on New Year’s wishes: Allen, I hope that you enjoy a Perfectly Peachy Perihelion!
The lone bird – against the backdrop of the glorious sunset – concentrating on its catch. Aye, that is so soothing on the eyes, this January afternoon on B&W.
Thanks Doug for the link.
“The waves are dancing merrily, merrily
Ho-ro Mhai-ri-dhu, turn ye to me”
Lone bird of the sea…
Thy home on the rocks is a shelter to thee.