The tiniest pine cones I have ever seen.
Obligatory seagull photos.
On the way to Mt. Palomar observatory. The first trip was unsuccessful, as the observatory was closed due to icy conditions or some such, but the second time we went it was open. Although it was a very cool thing to see, huge and with lots of cool scientific feats involved in its construction, it was fairly anticlimactic - sort of like an hour and a half drive to a small museum.
At the observatory. I think it was more than 5,000 feet above sea level (thus the snow). No one was around but us really. Inside the telescope was this massive glass lens that was casted in Corning (I think it was some odd thousands of tons heavy, took three trucks to transport it up the mountain, one pushing behind the one that was carrying it and one pulling from the front, and it took around ten years to cold work/polish. Something like 10,000 pounds of glass was polished away. It was pretty insane.)
A fat and happy squirrel at Spanish Village Art Center in Balboa Park.
The tiniest pine cones I have ever seen.
Obligatory seagull photos.
On the way to Mt. Palomar observatory. The first trip was unsuccessful, as the observatory was closed due to icy conditions or some such, but the second time we went it was open. Although it was a very cool thing to see, huge and with lots of cool scientific feats involved in its construction, it was fairly anticlimactic - sort of like an hour and a half drive to a small museum.
At the observatory. I think it was more than 5,000 feet above sea level (thus the snow). No one was around but us really. Inside the telescope was this massive glass lens that was casted in Corning (I think it was some odd thousands of tons heavy, took three trucks to transport it up the mountain, one pushing behind the one that was carrying it and one pulling from the front, and it took around ten years to cold work/polish. Something like 10,000 pounds of glass was polished away. It was pretty insane.)
A fat and happy squirrel at Spanish Village Art Center in Balboa Park.
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