On top of the mountain (well, not quite, THB is taking liberties, we are well short of the top...we're not even at the top of the gondola ride)
Runners-up for Pic of the Month Award
This submersible fits 7 uncomfortably. Rides are on first come, first served basis, and costs only $25/pp, less if you want to be full submerged.
The captain is handling the controls (from the shoreline)
the lefty is way better at skipping rocks than the two righties, and the row boat is safe 
Jelly fish minus tentacles
the giant barrel/tank washed up is now covered with graffiti etched into the rust; THB is consulting with LB on how to turn this thing into a money-making submergible
THB takes a break to watch TV on the beach, the signal sucks
Blue Jellies washed up in the thousands
Blue Jellies when dried out are puplish
The Emery progress: the apartment buildings are mostly done, work continues apace for the landscaping and the park
No idea...who is EVA?
One of the big "gets" was the agreement with the developers to build a ped/bike path through the old Shirwin-Williams office building. It opened this week (June 21) and then closed up the next day
Sandy has to learn a new command: SHARE, SANDY!
Half court hoop is up!
Mini Parkour along the tracks
Above: a people mover
And across the tracks:
big chair repair
and work on building a new market
THB and LB go to Oracle Park: THB's first (of not many) baseball games of 2023, going with LB via the ferry from Jack London Square
THB and LB go to Oakland Coliseum for Father's Day (and Hawaiian shirt giveaway):
view from the ferry
It's Dog Day to see the Cubbies play the Giants
Lumpia, unique beers, crackernuts
Even in jumbo size THB can't read the scoreboard and for the first time in many a year THB does not score the game. Park is almost full by game time. Attendance (not counting dogs): 36,236 (avg = 29,000)
THB and LB go to Oakland Coliseum for Father's Day (and Hawaiian shirt giveaway):
Attendance): 24,236 (avg = 9,292, last among all MLB teams)
We arrive too late, they've run out of shirts. Such a shame, Favorite crowd chant: Sell The A's.
DB and THB visit her sister and hubby in LA and make a side-trip to see the new Orange County Museum of Art. Anton Segerstrom is the ffinancial engine behind the museum.
Richard Serra
Sanford Biggers sculpture: Front above, back below
close-up
Louise Nevelson
Chantal Joffe
Phillip Guston
Helen Frankenthaler
Lee Krasner
Nathan Oliveira
clode-up
Joan Brown
Down the street, abou a block and half away, is Noguchi-designed public garden
THB and DB go to Crissy Fields and Greens: Sandy wass so well behaved on- and off-leash she was invited to be in the wedding pics. She politely declined.
DB visits Berkeley Botanical Garden while THB visitss Oracle Park: pics of Puya by DB
Picturesque spots near Monterey Dunes
Lovers Point, Pacific Grove, there are people in the water
View from the newly opened Woodward's Market Cafe in the Moss Landing harbor, great look at the power plant. Food and breski choice also quite good (better than the view)
THB and DB stop off at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento on the way to two nights a South Lake Tahoe with the Martins
a great show of work by this couple (amd partners) of Bay Area artists
these are Wonner's and Brown's photograhs installed on the doors into the gallery dedicated to their work; THB and DB were in Berlin many years ago when we saw a group show and just outside the gallery were pictures of the artists: VERY EFFECTIVE
Brown
Wonner
work by Brown
Work by Wonner
lots of dogs in the pics
Other works of note:
Paul Briggs
David Middlebrook
Chris Brown
Joan Brown
Stephen DeStabler
Oscar Magallenas
Two nights at South Lake Tahoe with the Martins
Bear box opened with an allen wrench
C stopping to remove a stone frm her shoe
Fallen Leaf lake in late afternoon
J on left, C on right
Parental units will do anything to avoid runaways on the slopes
rock climbing in the shape of a sphinx?
first adventure in snow, snowballs fall shortly soon thereafter
meet and greet on the beach at Lake Tahoe
twins caught in the act of hiding at the end of a roundd of hide and seek
a stand of burnt timber, there are many, many more visible from the road
contemplating the next meal?
Another beach shot, this time with all three of us with rolled up cuffs...and brrrrrrr! THB is tellling themg "some day you two will be sharing a kayak" and the twins are thinking: Tommorrow, Grandpa?
Blooms aroundd Lake Tahoe:
Lupin is everywhere
we only saw thse pretty bloomers once
two varieties of lupin growing side-by-side!
these cocoons fall off, turn into catapillars, then the caterpillars turn into butterflies
we spot the lost red scarf about 20 yards off the trail
and then see some even closer to the trail
Miscellani:
there's a new addition to E-ville's food scene
Sandy does her imitation of a giraffe drinking from a stream
and has not quite got the hang of using her bed at the beach
She fell off the same tree as THB
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