California Pictures

We went to Northern California for vacation. Here are some of the pictures that I took. They are not necessarily in chronological order, but alphabetical by subject.

• Sea Anemones
• An art car - front
• An art car - back
• AT & T Ballpark - Home of the San Francisco Giants
• AT & T Ballpark - Home of the San Francisco Giants - Right field
• A very strange statue outside of the DeYoung Museum
• Details from the statue
• A bat from the butterfly exhibit at the Conservatory of Flowers
• A beetle from the same exhibit
• A weird black flower in the Conservatory of Flowers
• Baby giraffe at the SF Zoo
• Bougainvilleas on Lombard St., the crookedest street in the world
• A bromeliad at the Conservatory of Flowers
• A butterfly statue at the Conservatory of Flowers
• Three butterflies in the Butterfly Garden
• An orange butterfly from the Butterfly Garden
• My favorite butterfly at the Garden
• Cable car controls
• The cable car engineer
• The San Francisco Treat
• The San Francisco Treat from behind
• Going up Hyde Street with Alcatraz in the distance
• Still going
• A cactus flowering at Luther Burbank Gardens in Santa Rosa
• A calla lily
• Cervantes and friends in Golden Gate Park
• Ships in China Basin
• Old piers in China Basin
• The real San Francisco Treat
• And we mean it!
• Cormorants on the bay
• Crested screamers in the Eureka Zoo
• The remodeled DeYoung Museum
• Clown crypt at the Neptune Society Columbarium
• The ferry, Eureka
• Just a friendly fight
• I'm on top of the world, Ma!
• Flamingoes on parade at the SF Zoo
• Struttin' their stuff
• At the end of the parade
• Floor detail at the Conservatory of Flowers, SF
• More floor
• Fountain at Ghirardelli Square - Yum, chocolate!
• A random gable in SF
• Founder's Tree in Founder's Grove - A few details: Height: 346 feet.
  Diameter: 12 feet.
  Circumference: 40 feet.
  First limb: 190 feet high.
  Age: 1300 - 1500 years old.
• Golden Gate Bridge morning
• I know this thing has a top somewhere
• A giraffe at the SF zoo
• Winner - Ugliest goat at the Sonoma County Fair
• Quiet time at the zoo
• The resting place of the Haights
• Sphinx head outside the DeYoung
• Kids at play
• Hippos in love at the zoo
• Close up hippo
• Indian Island with egrets in Humboldt Bay
• The Farallon Island Light at the Maritime Museum in SF
• Tribute to fishermen lost at sea on Woodley Island, Humboldt Bay
• The main mast of the ship, Balclutha at the Maritime Museum
• Were they related?
• The Neptune Society Columbarium - only active cemetery in SF
• The Neptune Society Columbarium - only active cemetery in SF
• Inside at the Columbarium
• Stained glass at the Columbarium
• Looking down from the third floor at the Columbarium
• Details of the Columbarium dome
• Looking north from the Cliff House, SF
• Looking west from the Cliff House, SF
• Kites on Ocean Beach, SF
• Orchids at the Conservatory of Flowers, SF
• More orchids
• Cow parade at the Sonoma County Fair
• Diving for dinner
• Please don't feed
• A pink something, or other, at Luther Burbank Gardens
• Play ball...Giants lose again
• Pitcher plant at the Conservatory
• Palace of Fine Arts, SF
• Palace of Fine Arts, SF
• Palace of Fine Arts, SF
• Palace of Fine Arts, SF
• Palace of Fine Arts, SF
• Flaming yellow poker at Luther Burbank Gardens
• Sand at Trinidad Bay
• More sand
• Happy Birthday, Rebecca!
• Skylight at the Columbarium
• SF skyline
• Spinning like a top
• Founder's Grove looking up
• Alcatraz
• Tommy's Joynt - the best buy in food in SF
• Transamerica Building from Chinatown, SF
• The Balclutha
• Turtle & sky
• White cactus
• Say hey!
• Water lilies at the Conservatory
• Water lilies at the Conservatory
• Water lilies at the Conservatory
• Eating at the zoo
• Zebra at the zoo