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The New Bridge

“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”
William Shakespeare 1564-1616

Because of damage done in the 1989 earthquake, what the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge needed was a good seismic retrofit. It turned out that was more efficient to build a new bridge than to retrofit the old one. This is a photo taken two years ago when the new span of the Bay Bridge was being built. The bridge is closed this week-end and will reopen using the new span on Tuesday.

Not So Little

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things."
Robert Brault

Late in the day on Monterey Bay

Anger Management

“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate
something about your size?”
Sydney J. Harris

This angry infant is a one of many sculptures by Gustav Vigeland that inhabit
Vigeland Sculptor Park in Oslo, Norway.

Until Tomorrow

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Buddha 

Litigation

“Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.”
Gore Vidal

A lawyerly license plate

Make No Mistake

“Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake.”
Luis Barragán

This is the very correct ceiling of Tewkesbury Abby in England.

Abstact Post

“If you make pictures you are bound to be an abstract painter on some level.”
George Green

A photograph of the top of a wood post. Reality on some level.

The Destination

“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is
essentially a part of it.”
Charles de Lint

This is Old Hulemalu Road which lead straight to our temporary home on Kauai.

Door and Window

“When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows”
John Clarke

A brick fortified couple in Faringdon, England

No Peeking

“Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.”
Richard Roeper

Man + light of day.

What's Behind

"Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind"
Laird Hamilton

Done for the day...

Inflation

“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut
you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”
Sam Ewing

Let’s hold still for a minute…

Much Warmer

“A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.”
Author unknown

Shannon and Anaïs… daughter and granddaughter

Variety

“Variety is the spice of life”
American proverb

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a poodle?

...And Sorrow

“He who has not looked on sorrow will never see joy.”
Kahlil Gibran

Saturday was full of happiness but two days later was full of sorrow. On Monday, we attended the burial of our good friend, Lynn Murrin. She had plenty of sorrow in her life but she always responded with joy. And that is how I will remember her.

The picture of the roses was taken on Sunday. They were supposed to be given to the parents of the bride and groom during the wedding ceremony on Saturday. That didn’t happen because one of the guests passed out during the ceremony. The guest recovered but it took a while so we removed the rose exchange part of the ceremony to save time. It was a day full of surprises.

Joy...

“When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.”
Arthur Dobrin 

John sees the wedding surprise that Shannon snuck in... a New Orleans style brass band!

Aerobics

“The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it ‘jumping up and down’.”
Rita Rudner

These two lovebirds are jumping for joy because today, July 20th, they will be married.
I’m jumping myself because I am the father of the bride. Smiles all around.

Quit Puffing

“I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.”
Carrie Nation

Especially if the hellion is leaning up against a gas pump. This is the lonely
gas station in Kalaupapa, the former leper colony in Molokai, Hawaii.
There are no roads that connect Kalaupapa to the rest of the island.

A Mighty Harmonist

“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
William Wordsworth

Along the Big Sur coast.