The life and times of a true knucklehead – No photos to be used without permission
Semi annual maintenance is what brought me to the islands this time. Or maybe it was the ramen. For whatever reason lately I’ve been on this ramen kick and my photos reflect this trend. I finally got my free cup of coffee from the Honolulu Coffee Company, it only took 2 years to accomplish this.
I did manage to see Christy & Dan at an all too short breakfast at Zippy’s Makiki.
We finally went up to Lake Tahoe after putting it off for so many months. Other than the beauty of the area we wanted to visit Jimi & Amy (Maverick too). Unfortunately for us Amy was down in the bay area and Jimi’s availability was limited, so we made the best of the Tahoe scene by ourselves. The weather was great, cold in the morning and quite warm in the afternoon.
The hike down to Emerald Bay was nice and easy. Coming back up about killed us. We had to stop numerous times pretending to take photos when were really catching our breath.
Vikingsholm at the edge of Emerald Bay.
Fanette Island in the middle of the bay.
Needless to say we did stop by while Jimi was working at Kalani’s.
The following afternoon Jimi took us to Taylor Creek to view the Kokanee Salmon spawn (fish porn). It was a bit upsetting to find out that as soon as the salmon bury their eggs the Mallards dig em up and eat em.
Maverick had to stay home as he is prone to jumping in the water and pulling the fish out only to lick them. He’s not a killer.
Whoops forgot about the fotos from Sandy’s camera…
We paid Tami, Noah, Auntie Amy & Cait a visit to watch the football game. Not. I have no idea who won or who was even playing. All I know is we got to eat RT pizzas & play with Noah & Koa.
Got a hold of a couple of used strobes via Ebay – I plan on using my Alien Bees AB400 alot. Did a test tonight and had trouble getting the strobes to fire consistently. By the time I got a PC sync cord hooked up it was too late. I still need some work on my lighting set up.
We checked out Lambtown in Dixon today. It was pretty small and I think I only saw 1 lamb. They should have named it Alpaca Town. Sandy dined on the lamb riblets while I gnawed on a lamb sausage.
We met up with Jim & Kelly tonight at NEX in Oakland. The pressed watermelon salad was excellent as was the duck confit. I don’t have a small camera anymore so I had to make do with iPad photos.
We really should do this more often.
This morning we met the Yuen’s for a late breakfast at the Little House Cafe‘.
S100 just got announced. I anticipated this so my S95 ebay auction will end in less than a day. Meanwhile I pre-ordered the S100 at Amazon.
What’s new you ask?
As the 10-year anniversary approached, I wanted to commemorate those who died by photographing the Flight 93 memorial in Union City. I’ve investigated this place earlier and noticed all the up lights so I came last Friday to shoot a nightshot. Unfortunately they did not illuminate the memorial like I thought they would.
After the Chocolate Festival, Teddy & Christine took us out to Anh Hong Restaurant. As usual I got so excited by the food, I forgot to photograph it.
