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Sometimes it’s worth remembering to look away from the sunset, too. I stopped to capture this view yesterday.
(Incidentally: yes, there are signs and light poles inside the pond. The park doubles as a flood control basin.)
#photo #clouds #sunset #orange #park
A fall evening in Monterey between storms. This is near Custom House Plaza, along a section of Alvarado Street that’s been closed to cars and made into a pedestrian-only street. Just behind where I was standing, a temporary ice skating rink has opened for the season.
#photo #city #walking #trees #lights
A flock of birds over sailboats on Monterey Bay. It was raining for most of the road trip, but Friday had some nice sunny weather in between storms, and I got to walk along the shore for a bit.
#MontereyBay #California #Birds #Sailboats #ocean #photo
A #gloomy #sunset over the #OilField.
Kenneth Hahn Park features a patch of semi-wilderness in the middle of suburban #LosAngeles that’s great for hiking…and is also right next to the Inglewood Oil Field.
One of the (many) weird things about #LosAngeles is that there are fragments of wilderness scattered throughout the suburbs. (Mostly where it was a pain to build, or someone owned a lot of land & decided to donate it.)
I had two photos of this #trail junction and #fence. I liked the colors in one, the composition in the other, and I just couldn’t get the balance right on the second. On a whim I desaturated it. Turns out it looks better in #blackandwhite anyway!
#nature #hiking #photo
Flowering #Jade. In November.
It was a pretty big one, too, probably 3-4 feet tall and maybe 7-8 feet across. Definitely bigger than you usually see it as a houseplant
Usually.
I’ve seen some pretty big jade plants in gardens, too!
Spotted across the street a few mornings ago on my way to work.
#photo #PalmTrees #trees
Geese at the amphitheatre.
This city park has a pond which attracts ducks, coots, seagulls, and as near as I can tell a permanent flock of Canada Geese that wander around the banks of the pond and the open space at the south end, where these terraces are located.
Let’s just say I don’t think I’d want to sit on the ground in that part of the park.
#photo #geese #park #birds
Two #squirrels spotted on a hike last weekend: The good photos, and the two-seconds-later photos.
The first one took a while for me to spot inside the bush (though I could hear it), and then it started chowing down on the berries.
The second one looked like it was checking both ways before crossing the street, and then it took off in a blur. So maybe it was.
Also decided to go for a less traditional view of the #lighthouse at #PointVicente while I was there last weekend.
At #PointVicente, California: A wren(?) on the side of the cliffs, the iconic view of the cove and the historic #lighthouse, and a #sailboat alone on the sea.
iNat has suggested the bird is a rock wren.
Some #birds I saw on a hike today:
On Photog.Social
Black Phoebe on iNaturalist
California Towhee on iNaturalist
Hummingbird on iNaturalist
Lesser Goldfinch on iNaturalist
@sohkamyung I suppose if there aren’t any gulls that *aren’t* ocean-based, “seagull” is probably redundant, too.
In response to a question about the white dome behind the Queen Mary in this post:
I believe it was originally built to shelter the Spruce Goose (Howard Hughes’ experimental all-wooden giant seaplane) when it was on display at Long Beach. I know that’s what it was used for in the 1980s, anyway.
The plane is in a museum in Oregon now, and according to Wikipedia, the dome is now used as a terminal for Carnival Cruise lines.
Looking up at the walls of a hotel near LAX. The #patterened #facade in the first photo is repeated on several other walls around the hotel. Above it are many layers of #interleaved balconies for the hotel rooms.
Does anyone know the term for this #architecture style? It’s sort of post-Googie, pre-Brutalist?
Not as good a photo, but a wider view for context, before they repainted a couple of years ago. The wall and balconies are on the tower to the left of the frame.
