Websailor's Picture Gallery

I guess it's obvious I like visiting the National Parks. I love the outdoors and the beautiful places we have in this country.

The State Parks in California are beautiful too and there are so many of them relatively close by. It makes them easy to visit. Plus they have hot water for showers and hand washing!

The East Bay Region in California has some wonderful parks, on a par with State Parks. Since they are local, they get a lot of use, including by us.

Cruises are lots of fun - you get to eat all this delicious food, you only unpack your bags once, and everything is done for you. You just enjoy the new place you're visiting!

Concord CERT graduated two new classes today so we served as guides on their final drill exercises. It was a good refresher for us, plus we got to pass on a bit of our knowledge, and it was neat to see how other people approached the drill scenarios.

The training everyone got today was excellent!

The REACH Air Medical helicopter just landed at the school near us. An ambulance zoomed down the street to where it landed. A patient was moved to the helicopter and off it went!

We found out later that a 5 year old girl stepped into the street and was hit by a truck that then sped away. How sad!

When we were up in Truckee for Cheryls Concert, we visited Lake Tahoe. As usual, it was gorgeous.

When we were up in Truckee (near Lake Tahoe), I saw some unique railroad pieces of rolling stock. I just had to stop and take some pictures. The rotary snow plow was unusual but somewhat common out here. But the wrecker was quite uncommon (at least nowadays). That was a real treat!

This link is a pretty neat video of a snow plow in operation.

As I was leaving for work the other day, I glanced up to see a Grey Fox curled up in a nice cubbyhole on our roof. I can see why it picked that spot on the cold, windy, and almost raining night that we had last night. From our dining room window it was only a couple of feet away.

On this rainy day, we took a little trip in to the California Academy Of Sciences in San Francisco. There were crazy drivers on the wet roads and the Museum was full of schoolchildren making noise, but I enjoyed it.

This juvenile Red Tailed Hawk landed up in this palm tree, and was surveying the ground looking for breakfast.

I saw a duck sleeping by our pool....but when I went out to scare it away, a female duck waddled out of our flower bed!

For my birthday, we took a trip to Half Moon Bay and stayed at the Cypress Inn at Miramar Beach. The ocean was right outside our windows. We took some nice walks, ate some great food, and drank some nice wine. All-in-all, we had a fantastic little break from our normal lives.

Cheryl took these pictures of a young Red Tailed Hawk in a tree in our backyard looking for breakfast. I hope it was successful - we have way too many gophers!

I went for a relatively short hike on Mt Diablo. It was nice to get out and back into a natural/wild area.