A Memorable Memorial Day Weekend

Bay Area CA

3 day weekends are great. This most recent 3 day weekend was epic. We packed a ton into 3 days. We did 2 city tours, went to 2 bars on our quest to visit bars from A-Z and rented a car and got out of town for a day. Check it out.

We did the SF City Guides Tour of the Rincon Center Murals. These murals were painted during the WPA program.

The Rincon Center is a really great Art Deco building originally built to be the main post office in San Francisco.

I really liked this shot I took on our walk to North Beach.

We have been going to bars working our way through the alphabet. We went to Columbus Cafe for the letter C.

Here is me striking a pose at Columbus Cafe.

I took a picture of a nice selection of Bitters at Cask, a fairly high end Whiskey Store.

Donna and I went to Brentwood to pick cherries. It was the 2nd weekend of the season. It was fun.

I took this one of Donna while I was on a Cherry Ladder. I didn't fine the Chute or the HiHo....

Lovely Cherries

Donna wore her Cherry Tree camouflage.

More Cherry Picking. It was very picturesque.

Then we went to an Alpaca farm and saw the alpaca.

They were cute

This one liked Donna but Donna didn't know it yet. :)

Twins? Nope....

Cute hu?

A bit of grafiti art and a different view of the Transamerica Pyramid.

I like taking photos of buildings

This is a great shot of a bar we went to in North Beach. 15 Romolo. It's a speak easy in an alley. The photo doesn't do the view we had justice. It was so cool.

A candle and bitters at 15 Romolo

Donna anticipating her libation at 15 Romolo.

It was a great weekend. I look forward to the next 3 day weekend.

What happens in SF gets put on my blog...Family Visit

San Francisco CA

A few weeks ago Sharon (Donna's Sister) visited us. We spent a nice weekend exploring the city and eating its fine food. Here are some photos from the visit.

Both Sharon and Donna close their eyes when photos are taken. It's in their genes. Luckily my 11 years in the Tech Industry has allowed me to meet some of the best digital artists around and one of them was able to quickly make some adjustments to this so that their eyes appear open. Keep in mind this is an altered photo when looking at it. It's amazing what we can do with computers these days.

Here is a shot of Donna and Sharon on the Golden Gate Bridge in the wind. I used my Lensbaby.

Another Lensbaby shot.

And another shot with the Lensbaby.

I was Lensbaby crazy.

Crissy Field in a dream.

China Town was ready for the Chinese New Year

Donna and Sharon took some time to do some shopping in China Town

Just before Sharon's flight we took her to the Irish Bank and she had a nice Ice Tea in a San Jose Sharks Glass.

One A Day - Catching up....

So I had pictures all picked out but failed to post them. It's due to being pretty busy, being a bit lazy and the new World of Warcraft Expansion so here is what I missed posting so far this month.

Donna and I at the Disney Holiday Christmas Party in 2005

Our House in Orange all decked out for Christmas in 2003

Some of the old POV Gang at Hooters for a birthday in 2006

A visit to a Japanese place for Lea's Birthday in 2005

A very Doggy Christmas Celebration Party at our house in Orange in 2005

Lea's office on her Birthday in 2003

Mom and Bill visiting us in San Francisco in 2008

The Disney Scheduling Holiday Party in 2006

More of our Orange House decorated for Christmas in 2002

One A Day - On This Day in 2005

Long Beach CA Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles

On this day in 2005 we went to the wonderful Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles. It's great! Go there! Now! Go Go GO!

One A Day - On This Day in 2008

San Francisco CA Pearl's Burgers

On this day in 2008 we went to our favorite burger joint in The City. Pearl's Burgers serves up great burgers, shakes and fries. They were featured on The Food Network on The Best Thing I Ever Ate.

Some photos for you during my break

Up and Down the West SoCal, NoCal, Vancouver and Idaho

I did mention in my last post that things are pretty busy. I decided to take most of the month off from posting pictures but I am working on December now and I thought I would give you a few pictures to hold you off and to prove I am busy and still taking photos.

Hope you like 'em.

I can't wait!

Posters Unleashed!

Say what?

Yummy!

Cheese!

Fleet Week!

Windy

iPhoning

Street Art

Hello!

Me and my girlie looking drink

Not Post-Apocalyptic even though it looks like it.

What do I do here?

Traffic Calmed and Hoser on the same sign finally

An Angel in Sausalito

Donna - You can do that? Daxter the Dog - Yea he does that all the time....

I'm in Idaho!

Boo!

More to come and December will be back to normal.

Jon