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*gasp and sigh* panzade - the antique car show photo looks really great. and yeah, it does look like its in the twenties.

Anyone living in Australia on this thread yet? As soon as I get a digital camera, I will add some photos of the Brisbane River view - its looks great, especially at night time. Tourists who come to Brizzie are always on the Goodwill Bridge over the river, with their video cameras.

Ok, ok, I'll dig around and post some photos. Maybe tonight, if the photo transferral spirits are awake.

Hmmm, I'll just do a few on a temporary site; haven't got my own storage yet on imageshack or photobucket, etc. So they won't last all that long, as I'll eventually edit them out of the temp site. (This is acting like this is going to work..)

Oh well. Sometimes my scanner at home works, sometimes it doesn't - for no reason apparent to me, as the connections aren't that hard to check. This means I'll have to bring the photos to work and scan them there and email them to myself at home. (sigh).

The good news is that I picked out a few photos.

This is my first effort to use Photobucket.com. I hope the images aren't too page-widening.


This view is one from the corner of the city block my gallery-studio is on, looking inland on a chilly winter day with intermittant rains. The gallery is a block from the bay.


This is a wildlife sanctuary at wetlands where the Eel River approaches the Pacific Ocean in a town about fifteen minutes south of mine.


A tree in my front yard, Cornus capitata.


A display in our gallery window, through which you can see the State Department of Fish and Game across the street.


Another one of our "found" bouquets, this one being the leaves from Cat Tails tied and put in a glass vase.


This is a picture of the gallery in between exhibits, empty of paintings on the walls or sculptures on pedestals.

Osso - I love the one of the table and chairs!

Me too. Those chairs were in among the junk that the old landlord had stacked up, that we had to clean out when we got the place. Faux italian or faux french, lovely green plastic upholstery. I've always loved the wall color we ended up with - paintings look great on it - and the floors. And I like the way the tablecloth "swings".

Hmmm, I'll have to see if one can resize on photobucket..

Here is my neighborhood

http://www.borge.diesal.de/fahrt

http://www.borge.diesal.de/lj

holashit! That looks pretty damn nice, CJ! Is La Valencia your apartment complex? Do you have your own private beach?

CJ - that's your neighborhood!!! Wowsa!

Yepp, it's my neighborhood littlek.

kicky, the "La Valencia" is a very old charming Hotel
direct on the ocean. http://www.lavalencia.com/

I live up on a hillside, but close to the ocean.

Great pics CJ, it looks nice and warm there.
Good samples of some of the local architecture.

Calamity, we've talked about this before... I lived around the curve of that cove photo, maybe 400 feet past it... no, 200 feet. (You know where the tall building is? It was being built when I lived there, clang, clang, every morning, two lots to the south of where I had a cottage behind an old beachfront house.) I struggle to remember the address, can almost remember it (219?). That was in 1964, so the "old beachfront house" is probably not there any more.

Yes osso, I know exactly where that is. Luckily, this was
the only tall building they built. After that, the coastal commission voted for a hight limit of 30 feet.

Unfortunately, most of the beautiful beach cottages are
gone. THey had so much charm and architectural value,
more so than the new mansions they're building today.

They've refurbished the Valencia, haven't they? Trying to remember when I last ate there... well, hey, it was when I was visiting a friend who lives in the hilly area just inland, but also just across the line into San Diego, probably around 1992.

Well, I am glad it is so identifiable, that there aren't more. I don't remember it as an interesting building, but I was biased against it, clangggggggg. I walked down S.C. Blvd over to the Clinic every morning, back in the afternoons...

The La Valencia was refurbished a couple of years ago,
and a new section was added that extends all the way
down to the Coast Walk. The Whaling Bar was left in its
original design though, dark, comfortable and cozy.
The La Valencia is still one of the most charming
places around (I think).

That building is an eyesore to all of us. We hate it too!!
I used to live close to the Clinic, but I'm now up on the hillside - it's
more quiet there and childfriendly. The Clinic was sold and converted
to very upscale condominiums.

Condos, ****. Speaking of which, I did a stint in the parasitology lab there..
ah, tis a bit sad, I have faint memories of the clinic itself being a nice little building. The clinic, ahem, my former employer, was not up to par medically, as far as I knew, to its really exciting partner at the time, the Scripps Research Foundation, which I presume does have a new and better facility. At least back then, they had wonderful research going on, top of the line, and I as a med tech intern could go over for the lectures.

Sorry, tangent, tangent, but I hope we do tangents on a lot of the photos to come.

On my own of the previous page, I've tried to downsize them and they still stretch the page, for which I apologize. Now they are probably only fuzzier.

Edit to say condos could work. I am not sure what I would have liked to see it turn into. There is already an art museum.. (I trust that is still there).