Showing posts with label San Jose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Jose. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

A little downtown

The other day I trawled around on the buses visiting a couple of op shops (thrift stores). (I much prefer op shops cos the focus is on lucky finds, hence op for opportunity, rather than being thrifty, which has some negative connotations these days.)

Anyway, after I got peeved with Savers cos they had three registers open and a LOT of customers with a trolley (shopping cart) full of stuff and two registers closed just like that, I decided to call DH up and go into town (San Jose) to have arvo tea with him. I had even remembered to take the phone with me! A miracle!

So I caught the 23 bus in to town. Here's a few pics from the little walk from the bus to DH's work.

wildriver
The Guadalupe River. Downtown. Looks wild!

merganser
A male merganser duck swimming frantically upstream. He actually blends in pretty well!

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On the road to nowhere - the bike path on the other side of the river (more a creek) just stops. Waaaah! as you fly off the end of the path. I presume there is a barrier on the other side of the bridge.

sisyrinchium
Blue-eyed grass, Sisyrinchium

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In a bed of presumed native plants (except some things are obviously weeds)

adobe_avenue
A green avenue. It was all nasty brown sticks two weeks ago.

coy_adobe
DH's workplace with its signage being coy and its buildings looking wonky due to the wide angle.

No pic of peppermint tea. mmmmm....

Wednesday, 25 February 2009

It must be tough

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It must be tough being a smoker in San Jose parks. But it makes me happy!

Sunday, 21 December 2008

Hooray for Solstice!

Yesterday was the winter Solstice. Gosh, today we gain less than a whole second here in San Jose.

Dec 20, 2008 7:18 AM 4:53 PM 9h 35m 21s − 04s 12:05 PM 29.3° 147.163
Dec 21, 2008 7:18 AM 4:54 PM 9h 35m 20s < 1s 12:06 PM 29.3° 147.154

I usually try to get a pic of sunrise and sunset on the shortest day. Ooops, missed sunrise, but here's sunset. It started well:
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but didn't redden up much at all, sorta just fizzled:
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But it was indeed a sunset - it could've been wet and dull - and we got to see it in town. More on going to town later!

A year ago, we were in Canada on a train! I never posted those pics - shall have to remedy that :-)