Max and I were on our way to check out a new house with ocean view in Miramar yesterday afternoon when this brilliant green pond came into view. The iPhone does an awesome job with impressionistic images like this.
Yesterday I cooked up some BBQ for friends here in El Granada, Jessicca Wabbit and Kenny Naughton brought a great bottle of Marziano Abbona Terlo Ravera 1999 Barolo (took a couple of hours to open up but was awesome later), Mark Haas brought a Joseph Swan 2003 Russian River Zinfandel (was big and juicy with 16.6% Alc.) and Tom Ingalls and his new friend Jaune brought a Campion 2005 Pinot Noir (was very nice and was a good match for both the Pork Loin and the Wild Salmon from Oregon.) A good time was had by all.
Expecting to see some nice clean peaks out there later today when the tide fills in. We are finally getting a little south pulse in the water. There are some good sand bars out there from all the big swell we have had this past El Nino winter.
This week we had a lot of crazy stormy weather and finally yesterday, the sky started to clear. It was not the hard bright light of a clear blue sky, but the soft grey light that illuminates every nook and cranny of a scene like this. My favorite light for almost any subject.
Walking the dog Boscoe along the Half Moon Bay harbor trail this afternoon, I couldn't help but notice this bizarre still life of rusted lamp-post, found drift wood and odd metal stakes. For some reason it reminded me of Picasso's Guernica. It's not really similar at all!
This was the view from the parking lot of the Half Moon Bay Brewery yesterday - 4/11/2010 - afternoon. You can see the squall approaching from the west out beyond Pillar Point. It's been one blustery squall after another and they're still coming on strong this morning.
This is Boscoe, photographed on the path in the middle of "The Strip" of un-developed land that lies between CA HWY 1 and Obispo Rd. in El Granada, CA. I adopted Boscoe from the Marin Humane Society where he had been waiting for a new owner for several weeks. Boscoe was originally a stray that had been rescued in Santa Barbara county and when nobody wanted him down there, he was transferred up to Marin, where I was lucky to find him. Boscoe Rocks! He is a happy 2 year old. Woof! Woof!
The early morning light at Princeton Jetty is overcast and moody. We have SSW winds from the approaching low front chopping up the surface. Looks like there won't be much surf here today.
Is that Albert E. shifting into warp speed hustling slo-mo style down the California Cabrillo Highway, aka CA hwy 1?