December 25, 2012

• PhotoPost: Harbor Regional Park Christmas Eve Day

  

  I’ve spent the last three days pretty much sick in bed. I caught a pretty bad cold the day before our company Christmas party on the 21st. The storms started to come in about that time too, and the days, and my body, have been pretty yucky since. This morning I awoke feeling a lot better, and by noon the storms had pretty much passed. It was such a lovely beginning to Christmas Eve here in SoCal , and I needed to escape the house, so I grabbed my ever present camera, and drove simply a half mile or so south to the Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park. This is the same park where that alligator got lost a few years ago, and is one of the subjects of my very first Mike’s Video Blog: Pacifc Coast Highway. back in 2006.

  
  

  This was shot yesterday afternoon while I was driving to the pharmacy to get my second round of cold medicine. Each of the nights we’ve been hit with storm clouds. At least the nights weren’t as cold as last week. The next day the storm departs, leaving clouds in their wake. The clouds quickly dissipate, and can soon be only seen around the horizon line. We’re looking south at about 2:30 p.m. 

    

  

  Taken during my walk around the mobile home park yesterday afternoon.

  

  The sun is on it’s way down, and can almost be seen peeking through the cloud cover in the middle of the picture.

  

  There’s more clouds than sky in these shots taken yesterday evening. I tell myself I’m going to create “Cloudscaping Too” soon, another MikeVideo Internet Movie, and I’m compiling more cloudscape shots when I can get them. Being sick didn’t make me feel too good.  But it does feel good that I can step outside my house, and/or take my camera along with me on my daily walk to get good photos. 

  

  Almost sunset. December 23rd, 2012. If the world would have ended then I wouldn’t be able to take such wonderful shots, now would I? 

  

  That’s the moon at the top of the photo above the white house in the back.

  

  Rained again last night, and this morning, but I was feeling a bit better. In fact, I took my walk in a slicker and rubbers this morning. But by 1p.m. this is what the sky looked like. 

  

  I climbed up on the roof of my garden shed, and took this right before I almost fell off. Then it hit me. Not a flying tree branch or anything like that. A thought that I haven’t posted a Photopost in a while, and it seemed a perfect afternoon for taking a short photo expedition down to the Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park. 

  

  I said short. Only about a half mile,  Lake Machado provides palm trees, fall colors (we get those a little late out here) and lots of ducks and geese. Also an oil refinery in the distance, just to make us realize where we really are!

  

  I really don’t need to provide any really detailed captions to these. So settle back, enjoy the scenery. I just did!

  

  We could be anywhere. The sounds of traffic disappear. Nature starts to reclaim her majesty

  

  Serene and peaceful, the lake’s denizens prepare for their Christmas too. A widescreen version of this photo is my new computer desktop background.

  

  These guys know their goose isn’t cooked this Christmas. (While taking video, three anxious geese almost honked my off the path. They seemed like they wanted to catch and cook me! Not these guys however. They’re practicing for the Olympic sport of Synchronized Path Crossing.

  
  

  I wanted to scale that platform on the right, but couldn’t find a way to get up to the raised walkway. 

  

  Looking south of the lake across the parkland. I didn’t wander far off the path. I’ve been hiking on mud before right after a rain, and didn’t want to spend a lot of time cleaning my shoes.

  

  It’s around 1:30p.m. Every time I photograph palm trees I remember one photopost I presented years ago where a fellow Xangan remarked they’d never seen a palm tree in real life. Wow!

  

  Okay, one of the shots taken in the mobile park above had my signature barbed wire fence. Here’s the chain link one for good measure.

  

  

  

  My car, framed by some trees, as I walk back up to the parking lot after my walk in the park, down by ol’ Lake Machado.

  

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