Some photos :)

May be some of these shall be worth developing. Decided to keep someone's fancy camera and use it while possible. Unfortunately we had quite a bit of rain today, or else we would have gone to a nearby hiking trail at Alum Rock park... (by we, I mean myself, Shana and her younger brother). Shana is around my age and her brother is a junior in high school.


Took a few snaps today of random photographically pleasing inanimate objects around the house, and went outside to show you a little bit of the mountains that practically surround us everywhere around here. I believe what I pictured was Mt. Hamilton which is apparently about a 30 minute drive from here. Oh, and we live so close to a primarily Hispanic neighborhood that there are Mexican grocery stores and good authentic Mexican restaurants around here. Granted, we did stop in what I would think would also be a pretty authentic Mexican restaurant in Liberal, KS en route to the west-coast, while mostly travelling down US-54 west and then finally catching I-40W.

Photos from the Canon rebel to be posted shortly :)
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GALLUP, NM.  Day 2 of road-trip and first instance of cannon rebel usage.

Souvenir from the drive the day before-- it's a tumble-weed that had gotten stuck in this part of the vehicle! I can't even tell you how many of those dangerous looking tumble weeds we dodged, and how many (just a few) we had to drive over or knock. We did see one car having an impressive tumble-weed stuck to it's hood. Little did we realize my car had a bit of tumble-weed stuck to it also.

It was right around Alburqueque onwards that the mountain ranges started populating our drive's views. This may still be NM (but in or outside Gallup, NM by this point)

And a quick look at the passenger before I got back to my cruise-control managed but yet attentive driving. Oh, and I am happy to say that I was honored with some of the best parts of the drive (i.e. the winding parts of the roads as the highway encircled one of the mountain ranges around garlic-rich areas in Gilroy, CA. In fact, the town almost smelled very garlicy. Now my writing is not just imagery infused,  but perhaps scent-infused also).

Think this was before Flagstaff, AZ at a gas-station.

View from hotel room in Santa Clara, CA

Part of the one free drink type of happy hour...

Missed photographing Scooter.

Three seasons here for sure...

Almost weird to see palm trees amongst trees in the autumn shedding their multicolored leaves?!

In front of the Senior Apartments next to the neighborhood I'm living in...

There's a baseball field in that park etc.

You may need to click on this photo to get the full effect. Notice the rainbow, and then the mountains in the background:)

I think the sign said life-trail which is somewhat interesting.

Contrary to my silly preconceived notions, there are definitely pick up trucks and SUVs on the west coast just like in the midwest...

How many trucks do you see?

Kind of liked the old man's bicycle.

just wanted to capture the mountains...and also the tall palm tree.

I don't recall my reasoning for this photo.