View from Tacoma

That is, my truck, while parked near WR Hearst State Beach.

Leftovers

Some spring photos that I didn't get around to editing until now. (Lots more where these came from.)

Who is P.J.?

My mom and I found these in a bag of my grandma's old photos. Nobody can figure out who P.J. was, but he had a lovely, kind of bubbly script.

all aboard for Tokyo!
Syl, remember the 163rd St Crosstown?
P.J. April 1945

I presume the "Syl" was my grandma, but then again, in that generation there was at least one Sylvia in every Jewish household. I don't think P.J. is a relative of mine. I'm not sure where this photo was taken but I'm thinking he was probably shipping out from somewhere in California and was definitely not on a train on Honshu.

at ease!
P.J. May 1945

You can see the Army helmet on the right side of the photo. P.J. probably didn't have long to wait to go home.

San Miguel

Mission San Miguel Arcángel and an old building with schizophrenic architecture that I think is a henhouse.
(If you can't tell, I really like the roof/lichen thing going on at the mission.)

28 June 2007

Maybe more of these later

Cuesta Ridge I

Toxicodendron diversilobum

Clematis lasiantha ?

Silene californica

Calochortus obispoensis

FHL, May 2007

Piedras Altas

Stony Valley

Nacimiento River

Control Burns

A few from paradise

Clover (Trifolium fucatum?) and a mystery pea

Driftwood and a mystery pea (possibly Lathyrus littoralis)

Briza maxima

Driftwood

Welcome to Dismal Town

A few photos from southeastern Virginia... unfortunately, the settings on my camera were weird and most of my pictures weren't salvageable.

The Great Dismal Swamp sounds like my kind of place

Eumeces laticeps
(yep, it's a skink)

No clue what happened here

Random images

Turnagain Arm, AK

Multnomah Falls, OR

Crater Lake, OR

Mostly flowers

Blennosperma nanum
(about 1 cm in diameter!)

Dodecatheon sp.


Lamium amplexicaule

Platystemon californicus


Lupinus albifrons

Cervus elaphus nannodes

Odocoileus hemionus