I was told there are turtles in our lagoon, I always thought, “Yeah I’ll believe it when I see it.” I guess I believe it now.
Turtle Lagoon
Easter 2022
We haven’t celebrated Easter in a couple of years (last one via Zoom), so it was nice to see everyone at Matt & Cait’s. I’m gonna start a go fund me to fix Cheech’s under bite.
Jenna Field Hockey II
Got a second shot at shooting Jenna at Stanford. I took 800 photos and whittled em down to 77. I’ll post the rest on a google photo album.
Tiny Fish Hunter
I spent too much time photographing this night heron hunting down a tiny fish. In the end it was so small, it hardly seemed like it was worth it. That would be similar to me spending half and hour to cook one piece of bacon.
Natural Hummer
Lately the hummers (3 I think) have been consuming their liquid diet just as fast as we can fill it. In those moments when we are “too slow” to meet their demands they can be seen going to natural means. I just happened to be at the right place when this occurred and this whole sequence took about 30 seconds.
Alley & Vine
We decided on a brunch with the Harrigans today. It was also an opportunity to cash in the Christmas gift card from the Lee’s. Thank you Tom & Marika.
Philippine Rum
I’ve recently been on a rum run. Until recently my favorite Don Papa was only available in the Philippines. To my surprise I found it locally, although not the Masskara. I will pop the cork on the Kasama tonight.
Jenna Field Hockey I
Jenna & Pearl were in town for a field hockey tournament. So we had them over for lunch yesterday, which I regret as Pearl drank all my Philippine rum. It was one of rare occasions where we get to see Patty & Tom as well.
We’ve never seen/photographed a live field hockey game. So this was a new experience. Unfortunately we arrived so late I only had about 5 mins to shoot.
Thanks to Pearl for the photos.
Birthday Yurting
WTF is a yurt? As a late birthday celebration we stayed at the Treebones Resort. The uniqueness of this place is obviously in the accommodations. Perhaps we’ll stay in the treehouse next time.
The surprise was the omakase sushi restaurant that was on the premises.
We did stop by Monterey for lunch at Hula’s Island Grill & Melville Tavern.
On the way home we make a quick stop to Willow Creek Beach to shoot a seascape.
Birthday 2022
This year it was quiet birthday for me. I woke up early and drove an hour east to photograph the sunrise, but it was so horrible I never got out of my car!
Later we enjoyed a Japanese lunch.
I didn’t learn my lesson from earlier in the day and tried to shoot the sunset, but once again it was horrible as the clouds were absent.