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Signs marked the location of the new Santa Clara station for BART as part of its San Jose extension.
A tube is being dug beneath San Jose to extend the system to Santa Clara from Oakland.
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A heart, with the letters S and F, was set up at the foot of California Street at the Cable Car turn around. That heart was available for tourists to take photos of eachother.
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A rainbow flag was hung as a curtain in a San Francisco window.
The rainbow flag is the symbol of the LBGT+ movement.
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A traffic control sign base had been discarded in a river in San Jose, California.
Laying there in the river it formed the letter X.
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A few new plants grew in our Monster raised garden bed in the front yard.
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Flowers that were purlple spikes (aka Liatris Spicata) grew next to our Monster raised garden in the front yard of Eugene, Oregon.
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Boulders were laid out in a circle near the foot of Market Street, in San Francisco.
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A stump looked over, water washed quickly by in a stream beside JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
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A cup, and a few glass bottles, floated in the Guadalupe River in downton San Jose, California.
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A sign in a corner store window read, "Hot Piroshki."
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Someone had broken the glass from a door in downtown San Jose, California.
Plywood prevented access.
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A tree trunk grew from among bushes with flowers lining the sidewalk.
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A dramatic tree grew near the beach road. The setting sun illuminated its trunk.
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A young gull rested on a wall separating the beach from the road.
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Butterflies decorated the inside of the screen protecting Hallidie Plaza at the Powell BART Station in San Francisco.
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The exit, from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass concerts, was clearly marked and hard to miss.
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Three hand-made signs were posted on a fence. One read, "Private No Trespassing." Another read, "No Parking Any Time." And the third read, "No Parking, Will Tow."
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A fake horse hung from the "Horsies Market," sign on 19th Street in San Francisco.
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A "Black Lives Matter" sign was in a closed store window in San Francisco.
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For an unforgettable wildlife experience, I highly recommend the Elkhorn Slough Safari in Moss Landing. We saw over one hundred sea otters, almost eighty harbor seals and dozens of sea lions very up close and personal.
This photo shows a raft of about eighty sea otters. Raft is the official label for a bunch of otters hanging out together, looking like a raft.
In addition to sea mammals, I also photographed sixteen species of birds. The trip was two hours of wildlife bliss. There were a few . . . | |
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I know they are wild animals with big teeth and claws but jeez, don't they look cuddly?!
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Two Macaws preening one another. A very intimate, gentle moment in a birds' life.
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Two Harbor Seal were of quite different fur colors but all the whiskers were blonde.
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A very pregnant Harbor Seal looking quite pleased with herself.
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Bette Davis eyes? Bedroom eyes? Puppy dog eyes? They've got nothing on harbor seal eyes!
The little slit behind the eye is the ear which is an easy way to distinguish it from a sea lion with its little external ear.
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