Remembrance Day, Whitehall

An unusually sunny fall day near Whitehall for Remembrance Day. Lots of headgear: bowlers, berets, turbans, shiny helmets with plumes, and bearskins.

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station on a warm fall day. Same place this time last year.

Regency Cafe

Late night, followed by English breakfast at the Regency Cafe near Westminster. 

Checkerboard Apartments on Page St

There's a whole street of these near the Regency Cafe. Walking down that street feels like you're in the "Don't Come around Here No More" video.

Beijing

On an international development trip for the University of Reading: Beijing's Summer Palace, the philosophy department at Peking University, Tiananmen Square, Restaurants on "Ghost Street", and the Bird's Nest national stadium.

Harvest Moon over Potrero Hill

Last pictures from SF for awhile.

Tomales to Ocean Beach

After oysters at the Marshall Store on Tomales Bay, drove home and watched the sun going down from Ocean Beach while listening to Sunset Rider.

CA Roadtrip: $750 swim

The Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle. Melody asked one of the guards if anyone ever falls in the pool, and he said that yes they do, and that when they do they have to call a park ranger who determines if the fall was intentional or not. If they determine that it is intentional, you get cited $750. Then he said that a fellow guard overheard a visitor saying that she'd pay a thousand dollars to swim in the pool, and the guard said that she could save herself $250 by just jumping in.

CA Roadtrip: Red Rock Canyon & Spaceship Spotting

Camping in Red Rock Canyon State Park. The park is near China Lake Naval Air Station and Mojave Air and Space Port, and when we were packing up our campsite I heard about 20 seconds of rumbling and looked up and saw the rocket trail from a trial flight of the Virgin Galactic spaceship.  Then 20 minutes later in a different part of the sky I saw a B-2 bomber being refueled by a KC-135!

CA Roadtrip: Devils Postpile

Devils Postpile National Monument, near Mammoth Lakes, CA. The hexagons are the tops of naturally occurring basalt columns. 

CA Roadtrip: Lone Pine Film History Museum

Dr. King Schultz's wagon from Django in the Lone Pine Film History Museum. 

CA Roadtrip: Sonora Pass

The sun turns the smoke from the Rim Fire red.

20th Street Block Party

Seemed like all of the Mission was on our street for the 20th Street Block Party.

Bay Bridges

The old and the new Bay Bridges--view from the water.

New View of the U of C

View of the U of C from the 10th (?) floor patio at the new Logan Center for the arts.

Toronto Skyline

View from the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.

Los Angeles to Las Vegas Neon Cruise

The Museum of Neon Art's "Neon Cruise", with stops at the Las Vegas Neon Museum, Frankie's Tiki Room, and the Peppermill.

The Aerie from the Air

Thanks to Patrick and his Cirrus, we were able to track down Lautner and Associates' aerie in Solano County. Last time we saw this place was our wedding.

Here are some nice ground-level shots of the house.  And a video of messing around with the lighting in the pool at night. 

Chasing a Container Ship

Cruising around the SF Bay at high speed with J&I&M. 

Gray Whale Cove

Overcast beach day at Gray Whale Cove State Beach.