Had my camera with me so we stopped and I took a picture of Tower Bridge.
I located a photo of the bridge on my drive taken on March the 17th 2008.
March 17 2008
Here is today’s shot:
I am just pointing out that the Tower Bridge certainly is over a lot of water at the moment and it is moving at quite a clip.
The photos are taken from different view points. I was surprised to find a photo taken in the same month. My photos get lost on the drives . …
Bifurcate In The Road post s have been photography and deciding what camera to purchase. I photographed the bicycle race and ended up with this blog being featured in the Sacramento Bee. Unfortunately the photos were not included because they needed room for a big pic of a UFO or something. But it was exciting just the same to see my blog in the paper! The post with the most hits in one day this blog as ever had happened because I attended a photowalk and a couple of my photos were linked to here (even if kmilyun is spelled wrong). The power of links!
Then there was the motorcycle. Here is what I thought about my first HOG meeting (and a bit at the end about Arco arena – bye bye kings). And of course the bye bye motorcycle post.
Fishing! I still love to go Bass fishing but the heat usually gets to me. We do get out once in awhile with either Brandon or our friend Ronny. Fishing is about friends and family and lots of worms sometimes. Then there are the boats. Rubber and aluminum. I still have the fishing boat but I need to replace the water pump propeller so I can cough- cough sale it 🙁 . I now own too many bass poles and have enough lures and plastic worms that I pass them out to friends. The plastics not the lures (you can never have a big enough selection).
I have gone off on tangents about computers, beans, puzzles, dogs, bicycling, well lots of things. This blog really has no point, no one set subject matter, it has always been post about whatever floats into my pee sized brain mind. Perhaps a blog with no clear cut purpose. Having a clear cut purpose is the rage nowdays. With social media taking a forefront if a blog does not have ONE major purpose/theme it gets lost in the land of google hits.
Here is the most popular post – the post with most hits everyday – HERE.
Well if you have browsed the posts let me know which one is your favorite post ?
When there is nothing much to blog about why not discus the old standby, the weather.
Here in Calif. we have had a tornado alert in the Bay Area as a large water spout caused notice and was video taped. Then it seems the real deal – a small tornado hit Santa Rosa. Lots of rain and snow. Car pile ups in the mountains (one large one last I heard ~20 vehicles) and I must mention the flood watches. A flood watch is in effect for the valley through Sunday.
The rain just keeps coming down. I am one of those peeps who likes to look at statistics, facts, get the info, and then process it. Patterns intrigue me. The radiation finally hit Sacramento not much, just the diluted amount they expected and my guess as to arrival was only off about half a day. And the rain is well, raining LOL. I glance at the river levels once in awhile and wonder if (or when) one of levees will fail or be over run. Sounds wacko I am sure but the real measured levels give me a sense of hope – not a false sense of security – I hope tee hee.
Made the ritual trip to the river park off HWY 160. The photos look almost black and white because of the weather.
08/25/2005
04/19/2006
03/18/2011
If you look across the river to the far levy you can get an idea of how high the river is right now. My friend Chuck in the far right of the first shot. We used to ride our motorcycles along river road together in the spring and summer. I miss my bikes 🙁
Nimbus, Shasta and Folsom Dams have been releasing water into rivers for over twenty four hours -a lot of water. I think they should have released more sooner instead of holding on to the water. Water sold to southern Calif is not called blue gold for no reason. I dunno sometimes I believe the greedily hold the reservoirs full instead of letting some of it head down river before all the river and creeks hit flood watch and warning stages. I do not like wet feet. Since Shasta dam hit capacity boat launching and fishing ought to be better this year. Hope we get spring this year so I can enjoy before it gets to hot to go out on the lake.
The water was really moving fast this afternoon along river road (Hwy 160) the Sacramento river looked menacing. The water in the parking area crept up 3 inches while we stood there. The wind was blowing and it was real dang cold. So I snapped a couple shots, watched some branches rush by in the ripples, and headed back home.
Well that is it for the weather – it is RAINING and the river is rising.
I remember listening to this song and album with friends in Junior High School. yeah Neil on getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I have no recollection of why we felt so unimportant at that age? Gosh, if we only new what wanting to scream out in a crowed hall I am ! or feeling not so significant I Said!
Augh teenagers feeling so unnoticed and trying to be so unique – LOL It also is one of the songs I listened to with my friend Amy. It came on the radio on our way home from a college course we were taking at night while in High School. We started talking about how someday we would be famous and everyone would know our name. That we would never be lonely and then we laughed and repeated over and over back and forth to each other
Then again we listened to a lot of songs. The last album we listened to together at her house was Elton Johns Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Then life got in the way and we spent less time together in our senior year.
But here I am sitting thinking about all the things MS has taken, getting frustrated, or just wondering alone.
Of friends present and friends past.