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Moonrise tonight

Here is the moonrise this evening at 7:55pm in Bear Valley. The moon is waning gibbous at 18 days old in it's cycle. Shot with a Sony A700, 200mm zoom lens with a 2x teleconverter, F5.6, 1/160th.

Coast Starlight to Seattle

Here are a few pictures, along with a link to the full gallery, of our recent trip from L.A. to Seattle on the Coast Starlight. It is such a great trip with beautiful scenery along the way, and I LOVE traveling by train! The coast is always gorgeous, and there is plenty of snow in the mountain pass.

http://www.gregloskorn.com/trainsfldr/coast_starlight_2008/index.html

Some misc pictures

I'm stuck at work tonight and things are slow, so I thought I'd add some various pictures for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Hike in the Sequoia's

My wife and I went on a special hike with Valerie Cassity of the Sequoia ForestKeeper organization the other day. We were lucky enough to win this private hike at their event at Mama Hillybeans.

The Sequoia's are so incredibly majestic that my words simply cannot describe them, which is why I take pictures I guess. To walk through a forest and realize that some of the trees you are looking at are thousands of years old is very special! I don't recall seeing a large Sequoia that wasn't fire scarred. They have lived through many generations of people, and even civilizations! Almost anywhere you look, you can see every stage of birth, life, and death of those trees spanning thousands of years.

I haven't been to the Sequoia's since I was a kid, and my folks were there before my time in the early 60's. They have some great pics that I'll post in another blog after I get them scanned in. In the mean time, here is a link to the pictures from our recent hike.

Sequoia ForestKeeper hike gallery

Enjoy!

What happened in BVS tonight?

I watched a helicopter land at the fire station in BVS this evening (Monday), then watched an emergency vehicle with lights flashing descend the hill from the Jacaranda or El Rancho vicinity. Then about 20 minutes passed before the helicopter lifted off and headed out towards Bakersfield at about 8:40pm. Someone was in bad shape I'm guessing.

AeroGarden veggies

The AeroGarden is a hydroponic garden for vegetables, herbs and spices, and lettuce that grows right in your kitchen without soil. It's water based (hydroponic) and uses nutrient tablets every few weeks. They are totally awesome! These pictures are from the second planting of each of our gardens. The one on the left is baby arugula lettuce that still needs a week or two before harvest, and the right one is herbs including basil, mint, chives, thyme, parsely. Eveything is so incredibly fresh and vibrant, the basil is out of this world! At meal time, snip off a leaf, tear it up over your salad or main dish and man oh man!

Here is the website for the AeroGarden: http://www.aerogrow.com/

4th of July balloons

I know there's a million pictures of balloons, and they do it every 4th, but I thought I'd post a few anyway. Maybe next year I can remember to get myself down to the airport and take some pictures of the jets!

Downtown's Fireworks

Here's a few pictures of the fireworks downtown, with a few trains thrown in!

This evening in my backyard

These pictures are from my backyard this evening. Nature is so cool isn't it!!! There's stuff to see everywhere you look, like the little white grasshopper who is about 1/4" long!

Hey, it was cool to see some of you guys tonight at the FM, maybe we'll see some of you tomorrow too!

Anybody know what these bugs are?

I saw quite a few of these bugs climbing on the stalks of those little flowers that close during the daytime in BVS yesterday. Some of them were hooked on to another bug (mating I guess). They looked like little freight train engines connected back to back, especially when they traveled up and down the stalks, like a little engine consist!

Anybody know what they are?