All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
We spent our 40th wedding anniversary as we spent many others in the past, by spending a day in the Monterey Bay area. We began with a lunch of Dungeness crab salad at Phil’s in Moss Landing and later in the day drove 17 Mile Drive down to Carmel. Beautiful day, beautiful weather and best … Read more
We spent some time relaxing at Baylands Park in Palo Alto today around sunset. Tomorrow begins a hard, intense week at work, as I combine the rigors of travel with the intensity of a new, blazing-hot project. Adding to the mix, we’re going on a two week vacation beginning next Monday. It’s fun and exciting, … Read more
It’s early in the season, and it was cloudy today, but the flowers at the Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden in Palo Alto are colorful enough to brighten any day! Colorful medley of fractalized flowers. :: Gorgeous mass of Dutch Irises. :: Seems I love to photograph tulips. :: Beads of water on Dutch Iris. :: … Read more
Couple of shots from today’s drive. Utah rest area. :: Blue Salt Lake ::
And not a moment too soon! I saw this yesterday afternoon (after a morning snow!) and made it back with my camera today. Bethany College campus, corner of 2nd and Olson.
I couldn’t choose just one, so here’s a set of three sunset photos from this evening. I do especially love the peach color and the luminous light of the first one.
Sheryl’s been going through some of her mom’s stuff and hung up this tile in the kitchen. I absconded it with it for a bit so I could take some photos; I saw the fractalius nature of the design even while it was hanging on the wall. I know it’s Swedish, but the second fractalized … Read more
My representative asked me, where should we get the tax dollars so we can protect property taxes from rising too quickly? I’m extremely disappointed that Steven Johnson from Assaria doesn’t appreciate that the legislature unnecessarily cut taxes a year or so ago, and now the state has a deficit. Where indeed should the dollars come … Read more
Now that was a good salesman. Caller ID said ATT Service, but of course, it was ATT Sales. I told him I didn’t make service plan changes without doing my homework and that I certainly didn’t reward sales people who used a caller ID that indicated it was a *service* call. I say he was … Read more
Continuing my renewed habit of blogging first, and updating Facebook and Twitter afterwards, here’s a shot of Lindsborg from Coronado Heights earlier this evening.