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The rose bushes in the Balboa Park rose garden are in bloom after being cut back for the winter. That means it's time to get out with the macro lens and look for bugs in the garden.

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On April 1st we had a Super Moon. No fooling. So I went to Harbor Island on San Diego bay to catch the moon rising over the San Diego skyline. Most of the day was cloudy so I was worried they would obscure the view of the rising moon, but the photography gods were kind and most of the clouds moved on by moon rise. The first two shots were taken while waiting for the guest of honor to show up.

Twins

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Hooray! We've managed to make it through another week without the whole world completely imploding. Keeping my fingers crossed that smarter heads prevail and that holds for a lot longer.
Locally it's been a week of early morning fog and hot sunny afternoon's here in the lower left. I've had the windows open at night to keep the house cool. Normally I don't have to do that until May or June. If the last few weeks are any indication it's going so be a blazing hot summer.

Some old familiar faces and some new friends from my last few visits to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

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Spring has sprung. Today is the first day of spring, thou you wouldn't know it with the weather we've had this week. Temps have been in the mid to high 90's inland where I live, and upper 80's along the coast. I've lived in San Diego county since 1977 and I can't remember temps ever being this high this early in the year.
Temperatures are not the only thing on the rise. Since the start of the illegal war of aggression against Iran the price of gas has crept up $1 from $4.29 a gallon to $5.29.

A dozen shots from my last visit to Balboa Park.

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Wednesday I went to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park to check out the newly renovated elephant habitat that just reopened last week after being closed for 2+ years. I don't know how many millions the Zoo spent on the project, but it looks fantastic and the elephants seem to like it.

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February is half off admission month at many museums and other attractions in San Diego county. Last Friday I took advantage and went to the San Diego Museum of Art. I love surrealism so was happy to see the museum was featuring the art work of Mexican artist Alfredo Castañeda.
https://www.sdmart.org/exhibition/alfredo-castaneda-beyond-surrealism/

Hushed Music (2003)

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After cool temps and rain most of last week, it's been sunny skies and very warm temps this week. Today's forecast is for low 80s along the coast and mid 90s inland where I live. Temps are not the only thing on the rise. Gas has gone up 20¢ to $4.29 a gallon in the last few weeks.

Every year from the beginning of February until mid March the Navy's flight demonstration team the Blue Angels are based at NAF El Centro in the Imperial valley. Each morning just after the playing of colors at 8am they have a practice session that last about an hour. Last Thursday another member of the camera club and myself drove out to catch that mornings session.

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It's been 4 days of cool temps, gusting winds, and a lot of rain this week. But the storm has passed and sunny skies and warm temps are in the forecast for this weekend and the rest of next week.

As promised in last weeks edition of FNP, here are some of the sea and shore birds I saw while I was at La Jolla Cove 2 weeks ago.

Pacific Brown Pelican

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I made my annual winter pilgrimage to La Jolla Cove last Saturday morning to photograph the marine life and the surfers. It was a beautiful warm sunny day. The number of critters hanging out at the cove varies from year to year. This year the numbers were about half of what's there in a good year. The only disappointment on the day was there was some good size, well formed waves and not a single surfer.
Tonight I have the pinnipeds. Next Friday will be the sea and shore birds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinniped

He ain't heavy, he's my brother

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Went grocery shopping this morning. 1 lb ground beef $6.99. 1 doz jumbo eggs $6.99. 1 gal whole milk $4.99. 1 lb bacon $11.39. 7 oz package swiss cheese $6.99. 48 oz jar of mayo $10.49. I'm glad I'm only shopping for one. Can't even imagine how large families get by. At least the weathers been nice (sunny and mid 80s) and will continue to be nice through next week.

Since the weather has been nice I finally got out with the new macro lens and photographed the honey bees that have been visiting my Rosemary plants. I mixed in some shots of a White-faced bumble bee I took a few weeks ago with a long (600mm) lens while out photographing birds. It was a good thing the bumble bee showed up cuz I didn't get any decent bird shots that day.