Morro Bay

What a beautiful spot. This is the last good harbor until you reach Monterey 135 miles to the north. They have their own rock. One really big ass rock. Its right in the middle of what would otherwise be a great channel into the harbor. The channel has to wind around the rock so it first bends 90 degrees to the left then 180 degrees to the right. It does give new meaning to "sheltered harbor". Really, really, really sheltered. The town is great. They are having a music festival there tomorrow. Should be fun.
Lots of seals in the harbor, they beg for food, duh.

Bakersfield

Very flat, lots of mega agriculture, and oil wells?

Cajon Pass and Tehachapi

Spring is sprung
The sun is riz
I wonder where all the trainzies is?

San Diego - FLASH - This just in.....

US Navy has downsized the pacific fleet. So sad:(

Vegas!

Speaks for itself!

Zion

Another bestest bestest place! I feel bad, my photos just don't do justice to these great monumental national parks. If you look carefully, that fuzz you see at the tops of the rocks are 80'-150' pine trees and those "rocks" are 2000' - 5000' vertical cliff faces. The geologists say it takes 1200 years for the water that weeps out of the rock at the canyon floor to travel through the rock from the Colorado plateau above.

Tom Allen's garden

Tom is an avid Daylily breeder and creates new varieties in his garden. He has somewhere between 4000 and 6000 potted specimens awaiting the spring bloom as seen here. A few early bloomers are also shown.