Greek Tombstone (click image to view large)

Last Veteran’s Day, which was 11-11-11 by the way, Theo’s Cub Scout pack went up to Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito to place flags on the graves of veterans. It was not long before I came across this interesting tombstone. I never expect to come across any Greeks out this far west this early in the 20th century. I don’t know why, I just don’t. I figure that, like my father, they get stuck on the east coast. I wonder how old this fellow was when he died.

So, on a drizzly bay morning before work last week, I dropped it off for servicing in west Berkeley. Unfortunately, my bike doesn’t quite fit in the little guy, so after running down the list of complaints to the service manager, I left on foot. I missed the Ashby Ave bus by seconds. Off I went on my damp, 2.5-mile walking commute through Berklandville. While I was hurrying to get to work, I decided to make the most of it and stop to shoot when necessary. Like when I came across these guys, slowly disintegrating in the urban wilderness of the East Bay. At least I got my Subaru feeling better before it came to a similar fate.

Point Loma Sunset B&W (click image to view large)

My sister-in-law has been living in San Diego for the past year, and we finally had a chance to visit here there for her birthday last month. Her second cousins also live there, and the day we were leaving we visited them at their home near Point Loma. They were kind enough to whisk us off for a quick tour of the peninsula. This was the view from the historic lighthouse there.

The Fox, the Hair, and the Sofa,and the Xmas tree (click image to view large)

As we were returning to work from lunch, a co-worker asked if I had seen the hieroglyph couch. I said I hadn’t. She pointed down the block and across the street. I detoured over to take a look. This is about the fourth or fifth large piece of furniture left out on this four-block stretch of Shattuck over the last few months. But it’s the first to feature such fine inscriptions. The long-dead christmas tree was an added bonus.

C & H Sugar. Crockett, CA. March 2012

Yesterday I posted a first shot of recent trip to Crockett and Port Costa on the Carquinez Straight, home of C&H Sugar’s corporate headquarters. Here are a few more from the trip. Click on the images below to view the gallery.

Like a theater set. Crockett CA. March, 2012 (click image to view full size)

This is the first one of a little batch of photos shot in Crockett and Port Costa last weekend. 10 years in the Bay Area and it was my first visit to this charming, David Lynch-like oasis. If only I had known, I would have been out here every weekend.