tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119976162024-03-14T01:41:58.208-07:00GeographileA geographile is someone who really likes geography.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.comBlogger420125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-30627075441714301382013-02-08T17:13:00.001-08:002013-02-08T17:13:02.118-08:00the north Pacific gyre<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8456449905/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8516/8456449905_dc8793af86_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8456449905/">the north Pacific gyre</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-67867891914787666642013-02-07T17:43:00.001-08:002013-02-07T17:43:13.484-08:00headed SanFrancisco-ward<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8454998362/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8367/8454998362_eb18871c2c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8454998362/">headed SanFrancisco-ward</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>Contrary to meteorologist expectations, this winter has been way too dry. This part of the state, in La Niña winters, can go either way, wet or dry. Prognosticators wait until late in the year to tell us how it will likely go, and at the last minute, last year, they said it'd be wet. <br /><br />Dry Januarys are not that unusual, even in wetter years, but this winter is just... too dry.<br /><br />That said, chilly dry nights can make for lovely sunsets.<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-19878078861041823722013-01-07T15:58:00.001-08:002013-01-07T16:02:47.828-08:00Huell Howser has died, and I am very sad about it<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabes55/3648059284/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3649/3648059284_5dcc263987_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabes55/3648059284/">Huell</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabes55/">MrFabesBird</a>. </span></div>I had other bloggy plans for today, but hey, Huell Howser died.<br /><br />Years and years ago, I flicked on TV to see a show about a place that I, a fifth-gen Californian who thinks she knows a lot about it, had never heard of, the Calfornia Poppy Preserve. It was Huell Howser's KCET show, "<a href="http://www.calgold.com/">California's Gold</a>," or as Huell would say, "California's Gold!"<br /><br />Dang that man had enthusiasm, and it was contagious. He was from Tennessee, California was an adopted home, and he was in love with it.<br /><br />It just occurred to me as I started writing about this that a big effect he had on me was to teach me an appreciation of parts of California I didn't know much about or hadn't thought of as beautiful or fascinating. I am intimate with northern California. I love the redwoods, the scenery of the live oak woodlands that form a bathtub ring around the valley, I love the smell of sage in the high desert. <br /><br />But the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=armenian+underground+fresno">underground houses of Fresno</a>? La Brea tar pits? And I hadn't even heard of the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=california+poppy+reserve&hl=en&tbo=d&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS501US501&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=jmHrUOGEFsaK2gXp54GACA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1280&bih=620">poppy reserve</a> until he told me about it, and I visited it from up in northern California the very next spring.<p>I learned to appreciate <i>southern California</i> from him, and that's saying a lot, and I learned to appreciate places and people I hadn't considered beautiful or interesting before. <p>Looking for a picture of him on flickr for this post, I come across a mention that someone tried a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/omaromar/946760863/">small halal market</a> after he mentioned them. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rios-enriquez/8358219747/">And the caption here, sadness</a>.<br /><br />But it's not just that.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/calhumanities/posts/247562968710359">Cal Humanities said on facebook</a>, "With wonder and warmth, he illuminated spots familiar, obscure, and magical across California through his public TV series."<br /><br />He was <i>full</i> of wonder. He overflowed with wonder and delight. He had the kind of wonder that made people -- that made me -- want to pay attention to what <br />we were at risk of losing, in California, if we didn't protect our environmental and cultural heritage.<br /><br />And he really loved people, so many different kinds of people were interesting to him, it's like he knew that the world takes all types and that any given person probably has a lot to share if you ask the right questions. Sometimes I look at how judgemental I can be about people who see the world differently than how I do, and I'm ashamed of that, thinking about how he related to others.<br /><br />He was just plain decent people. Period.<br /><br />Here is perhaps the most touching comment I've read in social media, so far:<br /><br />"They used to show California's Gold on Armed Forces Network when I lived in Japan and I recorded all the episodes. And when I was feeling homesick, I'd watch them sometimes." (She says I can attribute this to "Roxanne Cooper --5th generation Californian." Maybe it's that so much of California seems ethereal or transitory, but we long-timers like to point that out.)<br /><br />I hope Huell somehow knows about Roxanne watching him in Japan to soothe her homesickness for California. <br /><br />That says most of what needs saying, right there.<br /><br />More:<br />LA Times, "<A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-huell-howser-20130108,0,1021100.story">Huell Howser dies at 67; TV host profiled California people and places</a>"<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MrHuellHowser?feature=watch">His YouTube channel</a> has a lot of video, check it out and see for yourself<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-37776236402634062152012-12-30T13:30:00.001-08:002012-12-30T13:30:14.082-08:00what kind of tree is this?<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8326428175/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8074/8326428175_76aed536db_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8326428175/">what kind of tree is this?</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>anyone who knows which firs or spruces are used in California landscaping is welcome to help.<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-43147230327995405972012-12-23T11:25:00.001-08:002012-12-23T11:25:42.986-08:00fritzy's butt<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8301467750/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8213/8301467750_425ac9c1bb_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8301467750/">fritzy's butt</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>dogmometer<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-35915698427749048022012-12-07T14:37:00.001-08:002012-12-07T14:37:15.620-08:00City Lights of the United States 2012<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8247975848/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8062/8247975848_6dee620360_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8247975848/">City Lights of the United States 2012</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/">NASA Goddard Photo and Video</a>. </span></div>I stared at this for about an hour last night. I was most fascinated by Appalachia, with the lights arranged down the folded valleys, and how griddy the Midwest is. <br /><br />The closer I looked at it, especially east of the Rockies (i.e. away from where I live), the more I got lost, the less I could figure out where I was from the surrounding pattern. <br /><br />California was easy, but then, I live here.<br /><br />And the Gulf of Mexico outside the Mississippi River Delta, wow. Those are all lights from oil platforms, no?<br /><br />Click through to Flickr to see this NASA image, and to find the giganto-version.<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-33829988293200624702012-11-19T10:13:00.001-08:002012-11-19T13:03:49.102-08:00reason 100 to like our neighborhood: neighborliness<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8200771410/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8338/8200771410_039eea5d61_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8200771410/">reason 100 to like our neighborhood: neighborliness</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>I love our neighborhood.<p>
Our next door neighbors are renters who have lived here for a long time. They really never go in their backyard, which is overgrown with random yard stuff including a couple of citrus trees and a big apple tree planted by the previous renters a long time ago.
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Our neighbor across the street moved into his house when it was built, when he was a boy in the mid-fifties. He worked in local orchards, some in this block, for pocket money, but they're gone now.
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Today I went out back to see why our guard-dachshund Fritzy was losing his head and found the across-the street neighbor in the next-door neighbor's yard (with permission) harvesting apples. He called me to the fence and gave me as many as I could hold.
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They are so crunchy and sweet and huge.
<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-22541224218301764792012-11-06T09:00:00.001-08:002012-11-06T09:00:25.204-08:00Done<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8161521107/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8483/8161521107_cffc71aa71_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8161521107/">Done</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-68550362371285883632012-11-03T17:57:00.001-07:002012-11-03T17:57:23.777-07:00Gorgeous fall afternoon<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8152277505/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7280/8152277505_2fb80bd204_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8152277505/">Gorgeous fall afternoon</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>The first hints of seasonal color are showing up, green just starting to dust the hills.<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-11570674183671335322012-09-21T13:42:00.001-07:002012-09-21T13:42:27.334-07:00Farewell, sweet Endeavour<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8009651451/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8177/8009651451_c5dd444d43_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/8009651451/">Farewell, sweet Endeavour</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-50255436902470167492012-08-26T14:53:00.001-07:002012-08-26T14:56:51.853-07:00This must be one of the best Earth from the ISS pics ever<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7857275966/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8443/7857275966_f2d3c67908_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7857275966/">This must be one of the best Earth from the ISS pics ever</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>This must be one of the best Earth from the ISS pics ever.<br /><br />Don Pettit, one of my favorite scientist astronauts, took the picture. It's (c)NASA, they usually allow sharing of their photos for (at least) noncommercial use with attribution.<p>It is, of course, a long exposure to get those star trails, the little blue flashes below are almost certainly lightning, which is flashing in and above the clouds constantly in at least a few places at any given time all over the earth.<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-91319318489777508392012-08-22T10:54:00.001-07:002012-08-22T10:54:13.479-07:00NASA Sees Tropical Storm Isaac and Tropical Depression 10 Racing in
Atlantic<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7839472240/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7839472240_bec8aafcfd_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7839472240/">NASA Sees Tropical Storm Isaac and Tropical Depression 10 Racing in Atlantic</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/">NASA Goddard Photo and Video</a>. </span></div><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-76733000358839122602012-08-04T21:27:00.001-07:002012-08-04T21:27:01.884-07:00evening light on Mission Peak<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7713821404/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7280/7713821404_e699b2a65b_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7713821404/">evening light on Mission Peak</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>I love how, in this part of California, a neighborhood can happily contain Washingtonia palms (native to southern California's desert oases), coast redwood (native to the coast from Big Sur to slightly into Oregon), citrus, stone fruit, persimmon, and wild nearby, all the bay laurel and California oaks and endemic California sycamore and walnut and big leaf maple and chaparral plants that have been so well preserved in this less eucalyptusy corner of the bay area.<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-41350404963972518082012-08-04T16:51:00.001-07:002012-08-04T16:54:06.033-07:00chatting with a friend<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=109786" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=989c7898d7&photo_id=7713242848&flickr_show_info_box=true"></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=109786"></param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=109786" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=989c7898d7&photo_id=7713242848&flickr_show_info_box=true" height="300" width="500"></embed></object><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7713242848/">VIDEO0185</a> a video by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>.... about our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/sets/72157630904058580/with/7713144724/">trip with the family</a>, today, on Niles Canyon Historical Railway:<br /><br />Geographilic bit bolded: <br /><br /><cite><br />miche: So you spent the time pointing to native plants out the windows while Owen went ZOOOMZZZZZZ<br />mary: well yes ;) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7713256158/in/set-72157630904058580">Casey followed the zoomz</a>. <br />micheinnz: :D<br />micheinnz: You guys are just SO adorkable, the four of you.<br />mary: :D<br />mary: all four grandparents also came along - was awesome :)<br />mary: must teach kid about native plants :) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7713144724/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7713144724/</a> <br />micheinnz: Okay then, the eight of you are SO adorkable.<br />mary: <b>and just in case you thought you were joking <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7713242848/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7713242848/</a></b><br />mary: :D<br /></cite></p>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-77909777719295820392012-06-22T12:26:00.001-07:002012-06-22T12:26:51.814-07:00I'd look this up but I'm on my phone<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7421470412/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7253/7421470412_2ab90ea5a6_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7421470412/">I'd look this up but I'm on my phone</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>I'd look this up but I'm on my phone. Anyone know what this plant is? Buckwheat relative? Toxic?<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-69003039940653276092012-06-22T10:16:00.002-07:002012-06-22T10:18:12.341-07:00diversityAs you might have noticed, I have been sending geographilic photos I've taken from flickr to this blog, but not a lot else lately.
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I've got the toddler running me exhausted, and though I said I was going to post "sense of wonder" kind of things here, he's mostly wondrous about garbage trucks these days, so I'm trying to decide how to frame that.
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In the meantime, there's this fascinating spread of language video. It's mostly visual, so not vision-impaired friendly, but works well without sound:
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I love this sort of thing.
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I note that on the phoneme map, though Africa has high diversity for the most part, Madagascar doesn't, which makes sense given it was mostly populated from southeast Asia.
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Audrey, my family-member-for-whom-there-is-no-real-label, my son's other mother, my husband's other partner, gave me a membership with <a href="http://23andme.com">23andme</a> for my birthday this year, and it's fabulous and fun. I found out that the brownness on my mom's side of my family didn't come from Africa, South Asia, or the Americas, but my entire gene pile seems to be European. This doesn't really solve a mystery, as I still wonder why she was <i>so</i> brown, as was my grandmother, but it does clear up "where does the brown come from?" a bit, in that we know where it's <i>not</i> from, now.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-27855711027778501132012-05-31T18:29:00.001-07:002012-05-31T18:29:40.994-07:00western bluebird at Ardenwood<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7311671320/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7227/7311671320_f9dcf8af1a_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7311671320/">western bluebird at Ardenwood</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>western bluebird at Ardenwood @ebrpd<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-50284146331365484052012-05-28T14:53:00.001-07:002012-05-28T14:53:42.054-07:00.@seismogenic measures Hayward Fault creep<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7290119428/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7222/7290119428_a0b3e2b549_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7290119428/">.@seismogenic measures Hayward Fault creep</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>.@seismogenic measures Hayward Fault creep<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-56024124178110276292012-05-20T17:16:00.001-07:002012-05-20T17:16:14.110-07:00first contact!!!!<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7237716908/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8025/7237716908_04da720311_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7237716908/">first contact!!!!</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-86703629921810339352012-05-20T15:45:00.001-07:002012-05-20T15:45:20.815-07:00now entering Redstate, California<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7236868066/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5155/7236868066_18993139f5_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7236868066/">now entering Redstate, California</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-54951451475160492322012-05-19T15:01:00.001-07:002012-05-19T15:01:22.062-07:00#USGSopenhouse<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7229569730/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7087/7229569730_831cc8db15_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7229569730/">#USGSopenhouse</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-24325224161270741242012-05-12T10:53:00.001-07:002012-05-12T10:53:29.535-07:00San Francisco Bay from Richmond-San Rafael Bridge<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7183078220/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/7183078220_5ca9bc1738_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/7183078220/">San Francisco Bay from Richmond-San Rafael Bridge</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/">marymactavish</a>. </span></div>It's one of those perfect spring days here. All the Claritin in the world won't help.<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-11106786142425336042012-05-04T19:34:00.001-07:002012-05-04T19:34:59.983-07:00Sunol Wildflower Festival 2012<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebrpd/7142412369/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8001/7142412369_3032803f34_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebrpd/7142412369/">Sunol Wildflower Festival 2012</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebrpd/">EBRPD Public Affairs</a>. </span></div><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-30159113711623066312012-04-17T14:05:00.001-07:002012-04-17T14:05:52.438-07:00Space Shuttle Discovery DC Fly-Over<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6942387860/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7137/6942387860_f1fd378605_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6942387860/">Space Shuttle Discovery DC Fly-Over</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/">NASA Goddard Photo and Video</a>. </span></div>Space Shuttle Discovery DC Fly-Over - I teared up. I'll miss the shuttles. Let's keep exploring, on Earth and in space.<br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11997616.post-34584853775490936032012-04-07T20:42:00.001-07:002012-04-07T20:42:18.565-07:00Over nachtelijk Europa.<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_andre/6891792602/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/6891792602_3ca1f14e31_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_andre/6891792602/">Over nachtelijk Europa. Op deze momenten kun je ISS zien. Beneden nog/al donker, zon op het station. www.heavens-above.com of volg @twisst</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_andre/">André Kuipers</a>. </span></div>Western Europe from the ISS, by André Kuipers, Dutch physician and ESA astronaut.<br /><br />I really don't know why my first thought was the campfire song, <i>Barges</i>: <br /><br /><blockquote>"Out of my window looking through the night I can see the barges' flickering lights. <br />Silently flows the water to the sea and the barges too flow silently.<br />Barges, I would like to go with you, I would like to sail the ocean blue.<br />Barges, is there treasure in your hold? Do you fight with pirates brave and bold?</i><br clear="all" />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026027439402147372noreply@blogger.com0