Mural Walk along Lincoln Boulevard

26 August 2018:

A friend wanted to walk Lincoln Boulevard in Venice and Santa Monica this morning in search of murals for his art project. I went along looking for cityscapes for my mosaic project. Here are three murals that I found interesting along the way.

Top: Side of "Wash 'n Dry", 2626 Lincoln Boulevard, Santa Monica
Middle: Side of "Bowl Kitchen", 2127 Lincoln, Santa Monica (looks like a good place to eat...)
Bottom: Side of "The Love Dome" (yoga), 200 Lincoln Boulevard, Venice

I am going to try a multi-source photo mosaic of the front of "Bowl Kitchen"

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Visit to SS Lane Victory

23 August 2018:

A friend had two groupons for visit to a WWII Merchant Marine supply ship, and so we had a pleasant 3 1/2 hours wandering around this ship. It is generally in running order (except both boilers are undergoing repairs right now). When it resumes operations, it is used to take tourists out and around Catalina Island, or it is used in movies. When docked, it acts as a museum and for $7 or so you can wander around it at your leisure. This one was built in Long Beach in 1945, and saw brief service in WWII until that war ended. It then served in the Korean conflict and in Vietnam.

It has great potential for photography, and so maybe some day I will go back and just photograph around the ship. We were promised a personal tour of the engine room when we return!

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Deconstructing the house

20 August 2018:

I made a photo mosaic of the house. Yikes!

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Clark Field Tree

14 August 2018:

I went for a late afternoon walk down to the pier and back. On the way down I passed through a part of Clark Field that I do not frequent, and I saw this stately tree in the late afternoon sun.

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Pier-to-pier swim, 2018

5 August 2018:

This is an annual event on the first weekend in August, and it was a beautiful morning for an ocean swim. Except that I only watched. I am not ready for a 2 mile open ocean swim.

Water temp was a reported 75F, very very warm for Hermosa Beach. I do not ever recall a water temperature that high.

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First backyard plum of 2018

23 July 2018:

In the Spring of 2017 we had to replace our venerable old Santa Rosa plum tree with a new one. This morning I discovered the young tree's first mature plum laying near the trunk Yeah!

And somehow the local squirrels did not get there first.

There are still four or five green ones on the young tree. The tree had a big growth spurt while we were in Brazil.

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2018 Manhattan Beach Grand Prix

22 July 2018:

The top shot is from the Men's 35+ race (I think, with one woman thrown in for good measure).

The next is from the Men's 50+ race.

The Colnago bicycles were part of a classic bicycle display. The model years (bottom to top) are 1970, 1972, and two from 1984.

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