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\nI had just bought my first digital camera a few months before so this counts as one of the first digital pictures I ever took. Kids this cute can overcome extraordinary expressions of photographic ineptitude.<\/p>\n
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The rest of this week’s pictures are quite a bit newer: late 2003 to late 2005. I think a large number of the pictures I took with my old camera got either erased or misplaced, an error for which ensuing generations of humans will be genuinely thankful.
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\nHere’s a picture of one of our late great cats, Eldridge, who thoughtfully posed with a pumpkin for Halloween in October of 2003.
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I’ve got about a dozen other shots of him not<\/em> posing. He does have the expression which says we oughta be damn grateful for his cooperation. <\/p>\n Here’s a shot from one of my first walks on dirt, at Ed Levin County Park in the summer of 2004: <\/p>\n If you ever walk through downtown San Jose, this is a sight you’ll see every 20 minutes or so: These jets fly incredibly close to the buildings downtown. I’m guessing the people flying in on the jets wave to their co-workers in their cubicles. This one’s from September of 2004.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This one’s at Del Valle Regional Park in Livermore, early spring 2005.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ocean’s blue is sublime down this way.<\/p>\n While we’re on the subject of San Francisco, here’s a shot of the downtown as seen through a chain-link fence on a crystal-clear late-autumn day in the fall of 2005.
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\nNext up, a tail light from an early ’50s Cadillac, seen at an antique-car show in Pleasanton in March 2004.
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\nCaddy tail fins got to be so much more expressive as the decade wore on.<\/p>\n
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\nI wouldn’t have much of a portfolio if it weren’t for California’s golden hills and blue skies.<\/p>\n
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\nFalling water at Uvas Canyon County Park in January 2005.
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\nUvas Canyon is the best place in Santa Clara County to see waterfalls.<\/p>\n
\nSomething I’m also thankful for: expressive, though expired, trees.
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\nHere’s a shot along the trail at Pinnacles National Monument later in the spring of 2005:
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\nThe Pinnacles are an impressive rock formation, but there’s quite a bit of non-rock things to see. The wildflowers go crazy every spring.
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\nNext up: The beach at Andrew Molera State Park in Big Sur, south of Carmel, where I camped out in the summer of 2005.
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\nSpeaking of sublime, it’s an apt adjective for the view of San Francisco Bay from Angel Island State Park, seen here in the summer of 2005.<\/p>\n
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