Had a conversation this morning on the importance of not shaming people for learning new things that they “should have known already.” It reminded me of this XKCD from a few years back.
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Federal building for sale.
Federal building for sale. Seems like there’s a metaphor in there somewhere…
Historic museum and dry fountain.
Historic house turned museum and dry fountain in a California Beach town.
I guess I should say old house turned historical museum. The house itself isn’t particularly historic.
Concentric
Knobbly Hill
Along that switchback, we pulled over to the side of the road once because an old lava flow had left a very strange, knobbly texture on the side of the hill.
Magnolia
Snap crackled “Stop”
New “I Voted” stickers in today’s CA primary election.
Bottlebrush trees don’t produce air roots, do they?
Bottlebrush #trees don’t produce air roots, do they? I’m guessing this is some sort of plant parasite.
Purple flowers on the unmaintained greenbelt (which is more of a brown belt this time of year) beneath a set of transmission lines.
Phone pic of a Corona around the moon, and Jupiter.
Phone pic of a Corona around the moon, and Jupiter. Not great, but better than I expected.
I see there’s no editing capability (at least for now). I was going to add #nightsky after a line break, but it seems to be all one line. And now I want to fix the capitalization of corona. I’s not the city or the beer, it’s an optical phenomenon.
Some sort of purple flowers in the unmaintained greenbelt under a set of transmission lines.
Some sort of purple flowers on the unmaintained greenbelt beneath a set of transmission lines. A lot of it is more of a brown belt this time of year, but I think this section gets water seeping over from neighboring yards.
Spring colors
They made the signs boring.
They made the signs boring.
🌸Cherry blossoms🌲
Cherry blossoms at the South Coast Botanic Garden. The whole park is curated, with some parts arranged to seem wild(ish) and others, like this one, more garden-like.
Murals in progress on what used to be featureless gray walls
Murals in progress on what used to be the featureless gray walls of an apartment complex. The aviation theme on two of them is due to this being Aviation Blvd.
Composition brought to you by the angle I could take a photo out the car window before the light turned green. 😁
Update: I drove by it again, and this time stopped to look. There’s a signature: on the last section: Jacque Dupuy 2018, Mural Executed by LeviPonce.com
Some sort of flowering scrub brush
Some sort of flowering scrub brush in the dry part of Madrona Marsh preserve. Some parts of the preserve have ponds year-round, some collect rain in winter and spring, and some are always dry land with grass or chaparral.
@Einahpets 😆 On a similar note, my wife spotted someone dressed as a cosplay mashup …
On a similar note, my wife spotted someone dressed as a cosplay mashup of Tamatoa with Ziggy Stardust at WonderCon last week: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/41140053401/
Flashback to last summer: a red panda (sometimes called a fire fox)…
Flashback to last summer: a red panda (sometimes called a fire fox) at the San Diego Zoo. I made a point to look for them and the penguins on that trip. For reasons. 😉
#photography #photos #redpanda #firefox
Sadly I didn’t get to see them doing much. There were several in the enclosure, maybe three or four, but the rest were either hiding in the tree or sleeping. This one was just sort of perched up there, looking around.
Spider mash ups! Samurai Spider-Man and a Minecraft spider jockey
Photo taken at: Wondercon
Spider mash ups! Samurai Spider-Man and a Minecraft spider jockey at #wondercon2018
#wondercon #cosplay #spiderman #samurai #minecraft