India Basin

Pics from a visit to India Basin last week.

Derrick barge D.B. Alameda, on site at the shoreline park next door to drive piles for a future pier.


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Northern Harrier And Gull


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Baylands: Land, Sea, Sky

Here are some pics from Monday's visit to Baylands Nature Preserve to enjoy an autumn panoply of land, sea and sky.


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Northern Harrier


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Northern Harrier


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Byxbee Park, With Plane Wreckage

Here are some pics from a surprising visit to Byxbee Park on Monday -- a small plane crash-landed in the nearby salt marsh after hitting power lines northeast of the Palo Alto Airport just ten minutes prior to our arrival at the trail head ( Read more... )

Baylands

On Sunday D. and I spent some time at the nearby Baylands nature preserve, and I took some pics.

Salt Marsh baccharis.


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Byxbee Park

Because Sunday was such a beautiful fall day (and because this may be our last chance to enjoy such a lovely day prior to his hip replacement surgery), D. and I got out of the house and visited Byxbee Park.  Here are some of the pics I took.

Someone dumped a mess of snack food on the ground at the edge of the parking lot.


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University Of San Francisco

On Sunday, after doing an errand in San Francisco, D. and  spent a little time at the Lone Mountain campus of the University of San Francisco before going to dinner.  There wasn't a whole lot to see there, but here are a few of the pics I took.

A look toward the Studio Theater.


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Dish Loop

On Sunday D. and I went to the Dish Loop (whose smooth paved trails I appreciated), and here are some of the pics I took.

The trail wends its way up through tinder-dry grasses.


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