The Emery progress, mini-trips, pics, pics and more pics

 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                                                                                

Monterey Dunes beach update: pics by LB

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

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