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La Jolla panorama at low tide
When you come to the San Diego area, check out the low tide tables and then make sure that you visit La Jolla. The place is beautiful anytime but even more so at low tide. Here’s an example, which you...
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Enjoy life. Make waves.
It’s rare that I see a lone mallard. Either they are in a flock of a dozen or so, a pair during breeding season, or a mommy with lots of little ones. So when I saw this one all alone just swimming its...
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Never again
It’s rare that people are in my pictures but sometimes it just can’t be helped. That giant pelican is located near the Crystal Pier Hotel in Ocean Beach: Need a unique gift for a special occasion? Use...
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Back tomorrow!
Need a unique gift for a special occasion? Use code YLNNRX for a $40 discount on Photographic Art by Russel Ray Photos at Fine Art America Filed under: Picture of the Moment Tagged: absent, gone, out...
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Shall we go to bed?
Many decades ago when I was but a poor college student, at the end of each semester some friends and I would travel around town gathering up all the box springs and mattresses that graduating seniors...
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Advice from a tree
Moving is like archaeology in that you discover old things that were thought to be lost to history. When Jim and I moved in May, I found many things that I thought were gone. One of them was a poster...
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My, but you’re big
I usually go to the San Diego Zoo first thing in the morning; it opens at 9:00. I have three reasons for that preference: First, there are not as many morning people as there are afternoon people, so...
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It’s the end of the world as we know it
I get so tired of all these doomsday and end-of-world predictions. I do feel rather good knowing that I have survived so many of them. Everyone else has survived them, too, though, so what’s the...
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The fifth largest dome in the world, at night
I don’t do a lot of photography after the sun goes down because it’s dark. I’m scared of the dark…. I did have the opportunity to be downtown recently after dark and got a nice picture of the huge dome...
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Is it live, or is it Memorex?
One of my favorite restaurants is Islands because they are not showing sports on all the televisions throughout the restaurant. Instead, they show videos of extreme events like mountain climbing, wind...
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Having a dandy good time
When I moved to Houston after my time at Texas A&M University, I discovered wine tasting, wine & cheese parties, and Wine-of-the-Month clubs. It only took about a year to discover that I really...
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Where do you get YOUR mail?
I was born and raised in the small farming and ranching community of Kingsville, Texas, population 25,000, give or take. In front of our house, at the street curb, was a mailbox. I used to wait for the...
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Got its picture anyways!
I don’t know what species of bird this is but it sure is purty. It was zipping here and there all the while that I was doing a home inspection. If I went outside to take its picture, it would fly into...
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Nipple play
I came to San Diego in April 1993 specifically to “come out” and try to reconcile my conflict as a special person with my Mormon (mom) and Catholic (dad) upbringing. My first 11 months in San Diego...
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Zoey the Cool Cat’s weather forecasts
Zoey the Cool Cat is the most accurate weather forecaster on Earth! Sunny & hot Sunny & cold Cloudy & cold Rain Need a unique gift for Christmas? Use code YLNNRX for a $40 discount on...
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Crazy, crazy people
One of the highest high tides (a “king high tide”) in San Diego occurred this morning at 8:23 a.m., a whopping 7¼ feet. Naturally I headed to Ocean Beach. The temperature was a very wintery 58°F and...
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Be sure to post videos on YouTube
Hope everyone had a merrier Christmas than this poor Ocean Beach community Christmas tree was having in the 33 mph winds yesterday: Now go get all of those gifts returned! Be sure to post videos on...
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Sunrises
I have sang at several weddings for friends, the last one in 1984 in Boerne, Texas. The song I sang for Thad & Charlotte was “Sunrise, Sunset” from the movie “Fiddler on the Roof.” While I liked...
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This is MY territory!
One of my goals of driving for Uber and Amazon is to explore San Diego County, the little nooks and crannies that I would never find on my own. I’m quite pleased that I’m accomplishing that goal. If I...
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Yes, yes I am
Now that I’m back to WordPress, I can catalog all of the pictures I have taken over the last year, and share some of them, too. Whenever I go to the San Diego Zoo, I always make sure that I visit...
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