Postcard
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 12/12/2023 - 10:17am
Wanted to post a picture from yesterday and spent 15 minutes loading it up. Sub-smartphone.
Arrived here yesterday to 74° temperature and sunny skies. Spent the day barefoot on the beach.
Sunset pic is from San Elijo State Beach.
Haven't been keeping up with current events so I'll let y'all fill me in.
What's going on?
Comments
Beautiful sunset
the reflection of pink on the water
doubles the color
Thanks for posting!
We got off the I-15
and took a shortcut through the hills to the coast. Past big ranchos, haciendas, and Mc Mansions. Could not believe so many people could live up in those hills.
Went by Bing Crosby's golf course and community.
I have not been through this part of Cali in 40 years.
The spread of humanity is something to behold. Eight lane freeways are sixteen in both directions.
And still building moar!
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Ahhhh, San Elijo. Camped there a few times (tent camping)
back when we still tent camped. Iirc at least once we had to cross 101/PCH to fetch additional provisions and such from some convenience store to fete some guests. You could do that then, don't know about today. Also once on a job in LA bombed on down there to meet my Sis for dinner at some restaurant just north of the park. There is boids down there, of course, what with a lagoon and all.
No current events you really want to know about.
Thanks for the pic and the OT
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Boids?
Bonds?
Crossing the tracks @ Chesterfield puts you on a bike path that goes all the way to Encinitas, built up cityscape the entire way.
Getting ready to mount up and ride for lunch at In- n- Out.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
wah, youse nevah hoid'a boides?
them wingy things that once hung out in the extinct trees
used to make whistly sounds and poop on parades
pardon my pidgin
Lol
Little slow this morning.
Need some fresh air in my face
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Heh. ;-) n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
You response might be the funniest
and most clever yet ; ). Thank you for your stand up comedy and community spirit. It's always appreciated.
If you're biking to Encinitas, don't settle for
in-n-out, get a mushroom burger from Swami's
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Genocide Joe's brain might be mush but his eyesight is still
good and he can read from his cue cards that are prepared by his handlers.
He's thanking Zelensky
for being there with his hand out?
Lmfao!
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
yeah, but Brandon is a zionist, self proclaimed
and he is supporting a jewish nazi
Hmm, is there anything in his notes to cover that?
A wee quibble here. I'm not sure he's actually officially
Jewish. There's been a ton of statements made about the fact that his dad is, and this has devolved into a popular assumption that he is too. However, I've never seen any references to him attending synagogue or anything like that, and it is the mother which is determinative, not the father, in Jewish culture. Somehow nobody ever states that his mom was Jewish, or that his parents were, only good old irrelevant dad.
be wwell and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Yeah, don't know about that
Not sure he is nazi either.
But he is a 'former' comedian.
And a really bad actor.
San Elijo Lagoon?
Hi all, Hey E1,
Sounds a great trip and time.
Hey ya know there's boids at San Elijo?
Ah the lovely San Elijo Lagoon. Got a story for that... shock...
July 4, 1981. The future ms d was at work when I got the phone call. Curlew Sandpiper at Sat Elijo Lagoon NOW. This Eurasian shorebird was a species of my dreams. A smallish but not tiny sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew, males of which are solid rufus or chestnut in breeding plumage. A spectacular sandpiper. It was the first record ever in socal, there were three norcal records at the time.
She got home after noon a bit. I was ready with all the bags packed, met her at the door, and suggested she might want to use the restroom, we would be in the car the next 90 minutes. Less than two hours after she got home, we were at the north side of the lagoon looking at a smallish group of shorebirds with a dozen of the top birders in CA. They (birds and birders) were roosting in the pickleweed (Salicornia) for high tide. There it was in them. A male still mostly in breeding plumage. I couldn't believe it, thought I was gonna die of elation. We watched it for an hour mostly sleeping but occasionally preening. After that afternoon the bird was never seen again. A four-hour wonder. Many searched the next day to no avail. I have some slides of that bird in a box.
The San Diego area birders still turn up some good birds there.
As an aside, in 1982 we were in the museum inside the base of the statue of Liberty which shows works of immigrants. I couldn't believe it when I saw an original full size John James Audubon painting, of a Curlew Sandpiper. One or two get found each year from mid-Atlantic (Delaware) to maybe Mass. It is less than annual on the west coast.
So, fond memories of San Elijo Lagoon here. I don't even have to look that date up.
Have a great trip E1!
be well all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Sweet, E1!
I booked a couple of nights on the Seawall of Galveston Beach for January. The water and sand is pretty nasty, so we mostly just enjoy the ocean view. I am not a fan of flesh eating bacteria.
Sounds like you are really enjoying the trip, and I hope you can get far enough away from the roads to escape endless engine noise.
News sucks. You have missed only sucky stuff. It will be here upon your return.
Go play in the sand and look up, you might see boids!
Thanks for the OT, pal.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
What a gorgeous and dynamic sunset
Like a funnel of light and colour. Thank you.
Enjoy the rest of your travels and the beauty of it all.
You haven't missed anything. Sadly, it's others who are missing things.