tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54195360636711190052024-03-12T19:46:01.896-07:00Arizona Gronseth ReportArizona Gronsethshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13952539754573524363noreply@blogger.comBlogger523125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419536063671119005.post-89428160876131016592012-04-12T09:40:00.001-07:002012-06-16T21:13:01.031-07:00NEW Blogs!!OK, OK, back in business? Google quickly ended my second attempt, so I had to use a new account. Let's see how this one works. The first is up and running. I will put up some of our summer stuff as soon as I get time.<br />
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<a href="http://azgronsethnature.blogspot.com/">azgronsethnature.blogspot.com</a> for a variety of photos I tend to take when out and about.<br />
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I suppose I should add another one for photos that don't fit into either of the above, but I'll stop here for now. This will be my last post on THIS blog, so just click one of the links to get to the newer blog.Arizona Gronsethshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13952539754573524363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419536063671119005.post-61477979284862479482012-03-31T06:08:00.000-07:002012-03-31T06:08:05.329-07:00out of storage space?<div align="center">
I just got hit up to purchase stoarage space from Google to hold more photos. Maybe I should start up another blog and thumb my nose at Google, instead.</div>
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We decided to try our luck staying at Circus Circus Hotel/Casino. I should have gone back out later and taken a night shot of this sign all lit up.</div>
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Out our window (31st Floor) the floor fun park is visible (see last shot). Windows were heavily spotted with dust drops, but the rooms were clean. This tower is non-smoking, but the main floor is pretty steeped in smoke. Some of the newer casinos seem to have better ventilation, but this one - even with fewer people seeming to be smoking - has poor ventilation.</div>
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Woke up to a nice view of the mountains at sunrise.</div>
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An off-strip casino is in the foreground. The distant mountains look nice with the shadows.</div>
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If I hadn't looked out again a few minutes later, I would have missed the colors coming out.</div>
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This is the tower we stayed in. We were about 4 floors from the top. This view is from just outside the pool. Big pool, but it was still kind of crowded, and I don't think the hotel was very booked up.</div>
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This shows the world's largest indoor roller coaster zooming down the track. The Circus Circus lights on the tower can be seen through the glass dome. They have Midway games, circus acts and rides all indoors.</div>
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From Arizona, the only way to get to the Hoover Dam is by crossing this huge, arched bridge. You hardly notice the crossing until coming down to the dam on the Nevada side.</div>
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Of course, the dam is huge. We weren't sure, but you may drive over the dam to the Arizona side and park over there for free. They moved the tour start, however and it is a bit of a walk back across.</div>
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We paid to park in a big parking garage, and from the pictures of Karen and the boys, you would think we were the only ones. Believe me, there were LARGE numbers of people parking here.</div>
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And large numbers of people doing the short tour. Below are the generators turned by water drawn from Lake Mead. I should sya these are the upper generators. There are more nearer to river level in case the water levels should ever drop so low that these wouldn't have enough water power to turn.</div>
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Even though the dam was built starting in 1931, they knew it would be a tourist attraction and this overlook floor was laid in imported marble and the design below was commissioned to symbolize water flowing through the turbines.</div>
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Outside the main level Erik and Jake lean against a rail and the whole dam is shown. The angle makes the dam look short.</div>
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The car to the far left better shows how big this dam really is.</div>
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And closer still, the people on the dam in this close up also show how huge this thing is.</div>
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This close up shows the set up a little better.</div>
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The dam and the bridge are both impressive and worth a drive down for a look. The tour is very interesting and well worth the price. If it will be your only time there, I would highly recommend the long tour.</div>Arizona Gronsethshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13952539754573524363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419536063671119005.post-73116639251701067362012-03-20T06:34:00.000-07:002012-03-20T06:34:09.840-07:00Jake & Riley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Someone REALLY wants a dog!</div>
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Had to look this one up. I figured from the leaf it was some type of mallow.</div>
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The flowers have already dropped the petals and the fruit is developing.</div>
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I guess the seed pods resemble a cheese wheel, hence the name.</div>
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The leaves are edible, but sometimes absorb nitrates from the ground and may not be so good for you.</div>
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Another easily overlooked 'weed' out here is the peppergrass. The leaveas are actually the seed pods. I never paid attention enough to know that. They are very small plants, and as you can guess the flowers are very tiny.</div>
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Here is one next to the Heron Bill Filaree, which is a very small flower.</div>
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Here's a close up of these very tiny flowers and all the seed pods.</div>
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A real close look at how the seed pods are growing right out from the flowers.</div>
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These may look nettly, but are edible. I could imagine using them to help season whatever else I might have to eat a hundred years or more ago.</div>
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Commonly called Stork Bill or Heron Bill because of the seed pod. This is a tiny flower, easily overlooked. You can see some of the long seed pods developing.</div>
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When the pods dry up they curl up like a corkscrew, wind and rain help drive the seed into the ground.</div>
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One more shot of the flowers.</div>
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Another type of 'popcorn' flower. This one is much more along the line of the fiddleneck with the curved stem and flowers all in a row.</div>
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Here's this 'popcorn' flower out of focus and another interesting tiny flower next to it called a stickle leaf.</div>
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The flower is blurry, but the stickle leaves are easier to see.</div>
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Here's the other 'popcorn' flower. Note the long leaves and long stems and open structure as opposed to the smaller bunch in the one above.</div>
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Globemallow are beginning to bloom, so I thought I would try to catch some.</div>
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Each flower is cup-shaped. The color here is orange, but I have seen them run from reddish to blue-ish and also very light pink - nearly white.</div>
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The inside of this one has three white pieces sticking up. I haven't seen that in others. Of course, it could be insect eggs or even tiny larvae.</div>
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This shot shows the shape pretty well.</div>
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And the leaves appear to be nettly in this shot, but really they are more what I would call wooly.</div>
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I don't know the name of this tiny, nettly flower other than to call it a 'popcorn' flower. (I could look it up, I suppose). They are very small and even in large numbers are easily overlooked.</div>
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Tight cropping shows the nettles are sometimes bigger than the flower itself.</div>
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This cattail seed head was well over one foot long. I broke it open a little bit. </div>
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Coulter's Lupine blooming at Echo Canyon.</div>
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Brittle bush looks like it is growing on the rock.</div>
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Closer up you can see the large crack they are growing in.</div>
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And a closer shot of the flowers. Related to the sunflower, each flower head has numerous flowers on it.</div>
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Seed of the desert broom all ready to fly off to start new brooms.</div>
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Chuparosa bush is often visited by hummingbirds, but this one only had bees buzzing around.</div>
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The following are two sets of pictures from Camelback Mountain on days I didn't bring my camera. I took these with my phone.</div>
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With this title I figured I could kill two birds with one stone - so to speak.</div>
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The 'Camelback Chicken' has been around for quite some time now. </div>
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Obviously a pet chicken gone wild. It is rumored to have been a Firehouse pet that hooked a ride on a truck and escaped. It is well fed. Daily.</div>
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Red Bull gives you wiiiiiings!</div>
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Thanks to the Red Bull Girls I had my first Red Bull today and got my wings.</div>
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Apparently, this was once a happening town. Before the turn of the century it was the second largest city in Arizona with 50 gold mining claims. It had about 4,000 people when Phoenix had maybe 1,100. Prescott was the largest city at the time. It became a ghost town at some point. I don't know how much is actual town and how much is built to look like it may have looked or how tourists might like it to have looked. Anyhow, it is an interesting place.</div>
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There's a mine shaft and a place somewhere nearby to pan for gold.</div>
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An old truck graveyard.</div>
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A couple old tractors (Scott thought Lynn might enjoy seeing these).</div>
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Even a steam tractor!</div>
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An old water tank with a glimpse of the Superstitions in the background.</div>
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This would have been the view for the miners if they ventured out during daylight hours, and perhaps on Sundays if they were civil enough at the time to only work 6 days a week.</div>
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A nice view of the mountains from the 'town.'</div>
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A look uphill. The town is now shops and such - touristy. Back in the day there were 4 saloons. This one is quite a bit larger than the little church at the top of the hill.</div>
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The cowboy out front is trying to drum up business, but not for the house. He's offering horse rides.</div>
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Another stop amid all the saguaros and beautiful desert. This time we had the sun at our back and the Superstition Mountains in the background.</div>
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Weaver's Needle is a prominent landmark in the Supers. Somewhere in its shadow is supposed to be the Lost Dutchman's (long lost) Mine.</div>
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Scott had a couple business calls, so I took this shot across the highway and more or less into the light.</div>Arizona Gronsethshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13952539754573524363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419536063671119005.post-20859470320261123092012-01-19T20:42:00.000-08:002012-01-19T20:42:05.076-08:00Desert Day Trip - Superior to Miami<div align="center">
When I lived in Wisconsin a day trip including Superior and Miami would have involved an airplane and two very different states. In Arizona it is about a 17 mile drive.</div>
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Right after the tunnel (built in 1952) we pulled over to take some pictures of the little canyon - Queen Creek Canyon?</div>
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On the way into Miami there are huge slag piles that boggle the mind. No pull offs really along the road, so I drove slow leaving the town and Scott took some pictures. </div>
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The town itself looks pretty depressed. I thought copper was coming back.</div>
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Superior did look a little better for a small town - we stopped at the DQ there on the way back.</div>
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Went to southern California in December and Scott drove me around for picture taking. Today he came out, so it was my turn to show him around. </div>
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I have always wanted to stop along the highway on the way to Superior (or Boyce Thompson SP) and just take pictures. The sun isn't exactly cooperative toward southbound shots, so we decided to stop again on the way back.</div>
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Here's a chain-fruit cholla<br />
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fruit (above) and skeleton of an arm (below)<br />
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I do like how the ocotillo leaf out after some decent rain and they stand out when backlit.<br />
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As you look at all the saguaros it is seldom you see a 'typical' one with two arms sticking up.<br />
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After a short hike at South Mountain Park, I saw a roadrunner on some split-rail fence in Beverly Canyon.</div>
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I expected some mediocre shots figuring it would run off if I got much closer.</div>
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I didn't realize it was looking for a drink from the horse trough.</div>
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Then it hopped back to the fence and started down a broken rail.</div>
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Here's a tighter crop of the picture above.</div>
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Erik's birthday was a few weeks ago already. Krispy Kreme doesn't give away a free dozen on your birthday anymore - just one. We got our dozen for Erik at Grama's.</div>
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Erik just wanted a few guys over again. They played Wii games and we did the birthday cookie again as the boys just don't seem to care much for cake.</div>
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Anyhow, low-key birthday for our low-key guy. Hard to believe he's only a year away from being able to get a driver's license.</div>Arizona Gronsethshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13952539754573524363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419536063671119005.post-67462379565354461802012-01-02T06:26:00.000-08:002012-01-02T06:26:27.826-08:00TSO<div style="text-align: center;">
We went to <a href="http://trans-siberian.com/" target="_blank">Trans-Siberian Orchestra</a> Friday afternoon at the Jobbing.com Arena. Outside they have quite the mall set up.</div>
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The internet said to get there early and the doors would open by 2 pm for the show at 3. </div>
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They didn't open up until 2:30 (show at 3:30) - good thing we came prepared!</div>
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Huge arena for the Phoenix Coyotes. This is from the upper part of the upper deck. We sat near the front of the upper deck and off to the left of center.</div>
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We could see the lights and the stage just fine, but it was difficult to see the performers.</div>
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At one point the violinist went to the back of the main floor and played. Interesting electric violin. Karen says she read something about it and there are 7 strings rather than 5 on it.</div>
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We could feel the heat from the flames almost every time they shot up. I can only imagine how warm it would be for the performers.</div>
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A rather poor shot of some of the lasers. It really was WAY more impressive than this.</div>
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This is a little better. I tried to get video, but the sound quality was so awful I can't post it.</div>
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Great show - we give it 3 thumbs up. Jake thought it was too loud and too long (over 2 hours).</div>Arizona Gronsethshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13952539754573524363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419536063671119005.post-74264505847979489412011-12-21T06:26:00.000-08:002012-01-02T06:32:36.851-08:00Crazy Kitty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Scampi is starting to get into everything. We've taken to shuting doors most of the time. </div>
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I don't know how he might have tried to get down. I picked him up and carried him out of there.</div>
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And THIS is the reason we don't have ornaments on our tree this year.</div>
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He had been staying in the lower half of the tree, so we did put the train up (yes, up, about 5 feet). He knocked the train off the next day.</div>
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Apparently, nothing is safe anymore.</div>
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We stopped by the complex where Heidi works to take a picture of me and send to her at work. When Scott stopped the car, I took this shot.</div>
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Then I tilted the camera to get this one.</div>
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Downtown Irvine is compact, but beautifully done.</div>
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More palms line a small pathway into (out of?) the complex.</div>
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Even though minimal, the landscaping really compliments the buildings.</div>
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The curved building seems to disappear into the sky and a few palms become a colonnade.</div>
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Reflections always attract my attention. You almost don't even notice the building in this one. I am reflected in the center and Scott is walking ahead.</div>
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Looking straight up between two curved buildings.</div>
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Took a ferry from Balboa Island to the mainland which is further out to sea than the island is. Confused? There is a bridge to the island from Newport Beach. There is a peninsula that juts out so far, it is faster to take a ferry to it than to drive all the way around to it.</div>
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From the ferry I caught this pelican starting up out of the water into flight.</div>
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It followed the ferry a few seconds and then banked away.</div>
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This section of beach is looking back toward the mainland - Balboa is about 90 degrees to the right. A cool breeze and cloudy day kept most people off the beach.</div>
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The gull is probably hoping fishermen are super lucky and throw some scraps his way.</div>
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Or perhaps that the fishermen switch bait (squid, yum) and toss the remainder his way.</div>
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Here's the peninsula again from the dock.</div>
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Pretty much built up right to the beach. I don't know how these places survive heavy storms.</div>
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This shows how the houses are built on almost any terrain covering whole hillsides.</div>
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Here's the other ferry chugging along as we headed back to the island.</div>
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An interesting little island. Many of the homes decorate for Christmas and for four nights during Christmas time they host a boat parade as well.</div>
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Some go all out!</div>
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Scott says this high wire Santa is quite the attraction at night.</div>
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Beary Christmas.</div>
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Windows loaded with Christmas bears.</div>
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The little sign under the collector sign states, 'Hobby gone awry.'</div>
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This lady was adding some finishing touches to her display.</div>
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Penguins!</div>
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A little simpler, but still quite a bit.</div>
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Their dock was decorated in similar style.</div>
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Snowmen.</div>
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Another nice nativity scene.</div>
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This window picture shows a few boats and the mainland (Newport). Not Christmassy, just kind of cool, although you can see a bit of their inside decor in the darker reflection.</div>
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Back at Dana Point but this time down below first.</div>
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Walking across the bridge one has a window overlooking the ocean. I guess this is to show why so many people live where they can overlook the ocean. </div>
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Nicely decorated bridge and underneath (on both sides) were mosaics </div>
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I thought the ship was interesting. A closer look will show why.</div>
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Must have been fun getting your family's picture in the mosaic. I never realized that photos could be applied to tile so easily.</div>
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A standup paddleboarder glides by in the little inlet. Didn't seem like a very fun sport. I mean at least you are sitting down all the while when paddling a kayak.</div>
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So many boats. And people build right up to the edge of the cliffs.</div>
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This is only a small portion of all the boats.</div>
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Back up at the overlook, this shot gives a better idea of how many boats are docked here. And this is just one little harbor town! We began to realize how big the boating industry must be.</div>
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We could see the cliffs earlier, but couldn't get a good shot to show them. In the way distance are houses built up the hillsides.</div>
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Here's that old ship again and another old one behind it.</div>
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Anoother look at those aloe flowers in the sunlight. A little hummingbird was darting around but too quickly for my camera.</div>
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This is the view of the mission from the Starbucks across the street. However, if you should be planning a visit, you might want to try the coffe place shown below (you can get a Starbucks anywhere).</div>
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The Starbuck has an old brick facade which is carried over into the little plaza pictured below.</div>
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Fall is in the air here, too.</div>
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It was too early to tour the mission, and I had just been there this summer, so I took a few shots from outside the wall.</div>
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I don't know if they age the tiles before using them as replacement pieces or if these have come from a renovation project.</div>
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I took a side trip to a little historic district to catch a little local color.</div>
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<a href="http://www.hummingcafe.com/" target="_blank">The Hummingbird House Cafe</a> is well over 100 years old and is located just across the tracks from the old train depot, which doubles as a couple of restaurants. It is along the entry way into the old San Juan Capistrano.</div>
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Another old house with an 'interesting' accent color choice.</div>
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The old train depot is now <a href="http://www.capistranodepot.com/" target="_blank">Sarducci's</a> and beside it, off the tracks, is an old railroad car restaurant called <a href="http://www.thevintagesteakhouse.com/" target="_blank">The Vintage Steak House</a></div>
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In a little park we just happened by this HUGE tree covered with ornaments.</div>
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One last shot of some nice color by the train depot.</div>
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