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Off to Oakoasis County Preserve this morning to pick up some geocaches I didn't get before.

Saw this flowers.  On FB I was told they were called Naked Ladies.

A view of San Vicente Reservoir

I was really really really pooped coming back, and I stopped to rest at least six times.  Here am I sitting on a bench.  Resting.

One of the trails was described as "rustic".   That's code for non-existent. I think.

Walked 4.17 miles.  I suspect most of it was uphill, I'm not sure how that works, though.

Got seven caches, did not find two.

Did not see any humans the entire time. No snakes, either.

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Sunday Evening

Flowering orchid, after a couple of years!

Cherish that picture, it took me about twenty shots to get one in focus!


Saw this Morris Minor for sale while geocaching in El Cajon this afternoon.

A panorama from the roof of the Grossmont College parking garage.

Sometimes you just need an extra hand to push the button. The new walking stick proves itself!  At the Walker Preserve trailhead in Santee.

Drumsticks sure have shrunk over the last forty years!  Still taste the same, though!

Exercise in macro focusing using a real digital camera.  Still can't figure out the depth of field.  I KNOW how to do this on an un-digital Nikon FM SLR, darn it!

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It's Friday!

I posted these two on the FB yesterday.  I was given this orchid a year or two.  It grows, but this is the first time it has shown any sign of flowering again!

You would NOT believe how many times I took this shot to get one even THIS much in focus!

After my CT-scan this morning it was time to break my fast, so I ate this biscuit my daughter gave me.  Also drank more water.  To flush the kidneys.

Yup, it's in there somewhere.  A geocache!

My first stop after the scan was at REI to buy a new hat.  And here it is!  Also, some Harry Potter-type glasses!

At a previous cache I stumbled and fell on a trail.  I heard a loud CRACK!  I thought for a minute that my kneecap was broken.  There WAS an abrasion on the cap, but it didn't hurt.  I could stand just fine.  I continued on down the path.  There's a humorous story that took place here, but I'm too lazy to recount it again.  It concerns the enormous amount of water one drinks before and after a CT-scan, and being on a lonely path in the boonies, and how quietly bicyclists can be...

I didn't find the cache, either.

Later, at another cache, I bent the walking stick and discovered the crack.  Oh well, better than my kneecap!

I experienced rush hour in La Jolla and on the 8 today.  It was fairly unpleasant.  Remind me not to go out during rush hour again.

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This Last Week, Picture-Wise

September 14, 2016


I was fairly disgusted my myself for all my slothfulness this day, not even getting out of bed until nine or ten, so in the afternoon I FORCED myself to go geocaching.  I went to Mother Miguel near Sweetwater Reservoir.  Here some panoramas at the peak.

Here you got your Otay Lakes to the left, Sweetwater Reservoir to the right, and distant view of the coast.

This continues the pan, with Mt.  Miguel (note antennas) which practically behind me, and them Otay Lakes, back where we started.

This one just shows the flags more better.

A regular ol' image of Sweetwater Lake, etc., viewing west, more or less.  Pt. Loma looks like it is way out there.

That looks like Cowles Mountain off to the right.

This one comes after the one after.  A helicopter going by.

That helicopter entering my field of vision.  Too bad it is so hazy today.

A bit farther along the trail is Rock House.  Whoops, apparently I am wrong, Rock House is the big pile of rocks with the flags.  This is just....rocks.  And Sweetwater Reservoir. Again.

I used my shiny umbrella today.  Not a heck of a view.  This is coming down the mountain.

Solid hike, I was pretty footsore.  The trails are poorly marked.  They are working on improving the trails, and want people to not go straight, but instead to use the switchbacks.  But a lot of the time it is hard to tell just where the switchbacks ARE!  As a first-timer I got a bit confused.  Sorry about that!



September 18, 2016

The current configuration of the bird bath.  It now drains mostly back into the reservoir when the pump started.  Have not seen the raccoon lately.

September 14, 2016

My daughter noticed that the pictures of the cookies are MUCH larger than the actual cookies, seen to left.  There is a tiny little disclaimer under the right-hand cook, though.

September 18, 2016

We went for a drive.  Here is my son-in-law looking at the view from the desert view on Laguna Mountain.

I spotted a tiny little Horned Lizard, what we called a Horny Toad back in the day.

I shot this sunset out the side window as we drove from Ramona past Mt. Woodson on the 67.

We found three geocaches along the way.  Someone had their first piece of Julian Apple Pie today

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Near The Jail

I went out this morning to visit the "doctor".   Before the appointment I walked over to the hospital area, but found the cell had no connection.  I was running out of time so I went to the appointment.  While in the waiting room (contrary to what I posted on the FB) I discovered the phone was on airplane mode...  After labs I walked over to the hospital to search for a geocache.  I spotted this jail behind the hospital.

I drove over to another spot to look for a cache I had not found before, but when I got there I found it a disabled.  I looked around (on the app) for another cache, and found a couple more across the freeway along a little path.  So I drove over there and found them.  Took this panorama of some antennas.

The Very Spot

The medical visit went OK, and I didn't faint during labs, so that's all good.

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Out And About On Sunday

I can't remember much about Saturday.

But as for today...

We went to the Torrey Pines State Natural Preserve Extension, which, if you didn't know, and I did not, is across the marsh and up the hill a bit from the Torrey Pines State Natural Preserve.

I hope you are clicking on the thumbnails to see the Big Pictures.  Yes, these are thumbnails.  That panorama is somewhere around ten megs in file size.

Here is a panorama from near the turn around on the Red Ridge Trail.  You can see the I-5 on the left, and the old 101 heading up the hill across the marsh.

Kinda zoomed in across the Lagoon at the beach.  Look at them big rocks!

Kinda zoomed in at the wide freeway 5.  How many lanes we got there?  How much concrete?

I didn't find the cache near here, but my daughter noticed this.  But what does it mean?

Here I was trying to show the Big Rocks a little better, contrasted with the sand stone.

This way zoomed in to take a look at a work train.  I believe the railroad was shut down for construction/maintenance today.

The marine layer was coming in, it was a little darker.  But still a lot of light from the ocean.  This view is from the West Ridge D.A.R. Trail.

Daughter and her Husband being overpowered by the sunlight reflecting off the ocean.

I have no idea what these are, but we saw them in two places around the Reserve today.

Across the ravine my daughter waits for us to get back from finding a geocache.

We found two caches out of five we looked for.  Kinda disappointing.  My daughter coined a phrase that I need to have on a t-shirt, to wit:

I'M NOT HERE FOR THE SCENERY, 

I'M HERE FOR THE GEOCACHES

It was very sunny once we got away from the coast area.

Afterwards we had dinner at La Posta De Acapulco in Casa De Oro.


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Actually Energetic

I felt actually energetic enough today, after a week of super slothfulness, to go for a drive.  I got me a National Parks Pass for Old People, so that is one advantage of getting aged.  Then I went geocaching and found me four caches.  Here is a panorama pic I took from the highest point.

The full size file is like, uh, ten and a half megs or something. It will kill your dialup!

You can see Steele Canyon High School on the left, and a topless Mt. Miguel.  Mt. Helix is to the right of the telephone pole, back there.  Can you see Cuyamaca College?

That's all for today!

Up To But Not Including Labor Day (Because Labor Day Was Just Painting The Living Room)

Sunday (Aug. 29) on Laguna Mountain.

Wednesday (Aug. 31) at Otay River.

Friday (Sept. 2) at Ranas Mexico City Cuisine.

Whoops, it's gone!

 Saturday (Sept. 3) Sort of Steele Canyon area.

Memorial.

Found this at a cache I didn't find.

That's about it.  Got any questions?