Shift change at Henry Kaiser’s huge Richmond Shipyard, 1944. From the collection of Greg Bishop.
Pink sky and Great America.
Green Desert, Saddleback Butte State Park, March 18, 2017
Saddleback Sunrise, Saddleback Butte State Park, March 19, 2017
A little transit nostalgia, courtesy of the Imagineers at Disney California Adventure.
Yeah, we should have spent the money on faster Red Cars operating on above- or below-grade tracks. We learned. We’re paying for the lesson now. Hindsight and all that.
Crossing, San Diego, February 2017, by David Wolf
Twilight at Golf-n-Stuff in Ventura on a quiet Thursday night.
“I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn’t spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.”
Marc Reisner
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
Could not agree more.
This particular shot is over the Shimonemoto village, looking toward Shimokimiyama, both in Ibaraki Prefecture on the Island of Honshu in central Japan. The white dash on the rice field on the center right is actually a helicopter, flying low.
Not terribly topical for a California blog, but for a point: there is so much to look at, whether in this state or anywhere else across the west, that we will never see in person save out of the window of an airplane. We owe it to ourselves to look.
The old Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades. Rumor has it that it is about to go through something of a restoration.
View from the ANA 777, coming home from China and Japan.
This is truly a beautiful state, even when seen through the clouds.
Happy New Year, everyone.
