skywatch friday, week 6

[stanford, ca]

Last weekend I moved down to Palo Alto. It's almost always sunny and clear on the peninsula. I love the sunshine and pleasant weather, but on the other hand there may be something to lament in lack of variety. Chrome 3d's southern Finland skies, for instance, make for rather more interesting photos. Browse the celestial views to your heart's content at skywatch.

skywatch friday, week 5

[paucartambo, peru, 21 june 2007]

Sorry for the infrequent and verbally sparse posts as of late. I hope to be writing more once I move into my new apartment this weekend.

In the meantime, take a gander at the lovely and interesting skies posted by members of the skywatch community.

knock-knock

just a couple of reasons why I take my camera with me everywhere:


[potrero hill, san francisco]

[stanford ave, palo alto]

skywatch friday, week 4

Since I started work this week, the commute to the peninsula has me getting up before the sun. This is extremely unnatural for me, and I don't foresee many mornings when I will have enough spare moments to get out my camera and take a picture.

In fact, this photo is from last week, when for some unknown reason I woke up one day around 6:30 a.m. and, glancing out the window, decided that the view was good enough to capture on film. Metaphorically speaking, of course, since I don't really use film. And after I took the picture, I had the luxury of going back to bed for a few more hours. Ah, the good old days.



[sunrise in san francisco]

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skywatch friday, week 3

Another flashback this week:



sunset at the trainyards
Provo, Utah, February 2008

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there's something magical about california

Maybe it's the landscape. Or perhaps it's the people.

Maybe it's the weather. Or something in the water.

Maybe it's simply the novelty of actually living here after I was so tired of my old town, the shock of my leap-of-faith move having worked out so well and so quickly, the thrill of starting fresh and making a new home and a new life for myself in a place that I love.

Maybe it's a little bit from all of the above, with a sprinkling of something else that I haven't identified.

Whatever it is that causes it, at least a couple of times a day I find myself suddenly re-cognizing the fact that I am here, and that I don't have to catch a flight back home in a couple of days, because I live here now. It's like waking up from a really good dream to find that it was real, after all.

house hunting

Rather a telling name for a real estate company, if you ask me.
[Menlo Park, California]

and now for something lighter

Paulette Huntinova (aka Paul Hunt) at the 1988 USA-USSR Gymnastics Summit:




(if you liked that, check the youtube vaults for his beam & bars routines)