#Travel #SoCal #HuntingtonGardens #Photography One of many outstanding features of the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino, California, is the Japanese garden. Truly an oasis of tranquility in a vast urban setting!

#BloomScrolling #Blossom #Hibiscus #Backyard #Photography Wishing y’all a great Sunday evening and a wonderful week ahead with this double header of white hibiscus 🌺!

#Stunday #Camping #SoCal #AnzaBorrego #Desert #Photography My campsite in the Anza Borrego Desert, bathed in the honey-tinged first light on a still and tranquil morning. Desert solitude runs strong here. The harsh reality of 105 degrees and no shade comes in just a few short hours!

#Stunday #Sunset #SoCal #OceansidePier #Film #FujiChrome #Photography From my Fujichrome film archives. From the end of the pier, you can touch the sun! A passing storm system over Oceanside, California.

#SunRise #SanDiego #Photography #SoCal Up at 6:15 am to get a look at this fine California sunrise! Palomar Mountain is holding the sun at the horizon, and it looks deceptively small in this photo!

#Sunset #StormyPacific #Photography Near sunset on a stormy day. Big waves are crashing into the protective sea wall at the famed Children’s Pool in La Jolla, California.

#GreenSaturday #Mint #Garden #Photography In the cool shade under a Liquid Amber tree, I found this patch of peppermint thriving. I’m thinking it’s time to make some Mint Julep from scratch 😍🤗!

#B&WFriday #Scape #Abandoned #Bodie #Photography #Travel Old mining equipment, in good shape, but left behind, like everything else in Bodie, when the mining ran its course.

#B&WFriday #Scape #WildWest #Arizona #Travel #Tombstone #Photography Meeting Doc Holiday in the wild! Tombstone, Arizona.

#B&WFriday #Scape #Photography A coal burning steam locomotive is leaving the station in Durango, Colorado. The train was fully loaded with people eager to experience the historic mode of transportation to take them up the mountain to the equally historic town of Silverton, Colorado!

#Beach #SoCal #Laguna #Photography After summer break is over! A October day at Laguna Beach, just south of Los Angeles in California.

#PalacesAndGardens #KingLudwig #Bavaria #Photography A exhibition of golden busts of King Ludwig ll of Bavaria at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich. King Ludwig ll was the very artistic man who gave us the fairytale castle Schloss Neuschwanstein! He also bankrupted Bavaria with his castle building!

#FullMoon #Patio #Photography A bright full moon is lighting up the valley and local communities. A iPhone capture from the patio.

#Travel #Abandoned #Desert #Photography At the Salton Sea in California, big dreams of a lush desert playground died years ago. This building survives, at the North Shore Yacht Club!

#Sunset #Moonrise #SoCal #Photography Have a great Tuesday night everyone! Evening brings cooler temps here in San Diego, it’s a pleasure to get outside and enjoy the days end 😍🙏! Be well y’all 👋!

#Stunday #LasVegas #Sphere #Travel #Photography A photo of the lobby of the Sphere in Las Vegas. My nephew just sent it, he and his wife are there to see The Wizard of Oz! Looks colorful!

#Sunset #SoCalSummer #Photography Sunset at home in San Diego County. The first one was taken from the deck in the backyard, the second one was taken from the driveway, looking west, up the street toward the Pacific Ocean! Wishing y’all a great Sunday!

#Travel #DesertRain #Photography We had overnight rain while traveling along the Vermillion Cliffs and the Pariah Plateau recently. The rain unlocked an incredible scent from the desert sagebrush, it’s hard to describe, a very pleasant, earthy-spicy fragrance that fills the vast surroundings!

#B&WFriday #Scape #Travel #WildWest #Photography A ordinary weekday morning in front of the OK Corral on Allen Street. People are living Wild West history as part of their daily lives!

#BlueSkyMonday #PinkMonday #Sunset #MountainMonday #Photography Just got called in for dinner after working in the orchard all afternoon. It was a hot afternoon, but now all is looking perfect, with nice clouds and even a thunderhead in the distance, over San Diego’s east county! Good night y’all!

@mvinuesa.bsky.social Congratulations to all of Spain for a fine performance to become World Champion 👏👏🙏

@javierfranco.eurosky.social Congratulations on Spains World Championship 👏👏🙏!

#BloomScrolling #Roses #RoseGarden #Photography Good Sunday morning BlueSky! Had to fix some irrigation lines in the orchard this morning. As I walked by the rose garden, I couldn’t help noticing how pretty they are right now 😍🌹

#BigPlane #Boing777 #Photography Just adding a quart of oil, and then we’re off again to deliver more stuff with big tariffs!

#HotWheels #FastCars #WheelArt #Photography All these nice wheels caught my eye! Part of my day job was to work on some very nice cars, and then test drive them along the pacific coast highway in Southern California! Good memories 😍!

#SmallBird #Oriole #Nature #Photography In the fading light of early evening, a bee 🐝 and this Oriole were checking out some nectar as a good night snack!

#CityScape #Approaching #FerryRide #Travel #SanFrancisco #Photography Summer in the city! Approaching the Ferry Building in San Francisco on a fine, and entirely fog less summer afternoon! What’s not to love? ❤️ 💙💜🧡💚🖤💛🤎🫀

#B&W #Scape #AllenStreet #Tombstone #Photography Two older gents having a morning chat on Allen Street in Tombstone, Arizona.

#B&WFriday #Utah #Travel #Photography A old homestead near Circleville, Utah.

#B&WFriday #SoCal #Scape #Photography #Abandoned Left by the roadside, a hardware store that fell on hard times. Onyx, Kern county, California, population 245.