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A sign in a corner store window read, "Hot Piroshki."
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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 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 young gull rested on a wall separating the beach from the road.
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The exit, from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass concerts, was clearly marked and hard to miss.
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An old faded mural was painted on a brick wall in an alley of Santa Rosa, California.
The mural featured a scene with a mother and two children in a kitchen.
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Boulders were laid out in a circle near the foot of Market Street, in San Francisco.
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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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A tree trunk was in the shade of tall existing trees in Golden Gate Park.
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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 dramatic tree grew near the beach road. The setting sun illuminated its trunk.
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A fake horse hung from the "Horsies Market," sign on 19th Street in San Francisco.
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, Nikon D300S Camera
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, Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical Nikon Lens
, (Date Photographed: 12:41:44 Friday 3 October 2025)
, (Date Published: Thursday 1 January 2026)
, © 2026 Bryan Costales
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, An alley in Santa Rosa, California, had canvas roof, stars, and overhead lights suspended.
, Heaters stood by for outdoor dining at night.
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Someone had broken the glass from a door in downtown San Jose, California.
Plywood prevented access.
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This is a close-up of the same Pelican I posted yesterday,
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Two Macaws preening one another. A very intimate, gentle moment in a birds' life.
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Pelican posed aboard an old fishing boat.
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It was beautiful day in Santa Cruz and I had been photographing the sea lions when this pelican landed a few feet away on the pier railing.
If there was ever a compelling visual argument for birds being the modern descendants of dinosaurs, it's the pelican. I could easily imagine them flying just out of reach above the snapping jaws of some aquatic sea monster.
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A large group of pelicans were perched on the fish processing equipment.
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I was able to get nice close-ups of the harbor seals because I used a telephoto lens. If the boat had come this close they would have been disturbed and swum away.
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The pelican glides effortlessly over the surface of the sea.
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Prehistoric looking pelicans sun and preen in the winter sun.
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This Capybara needs a good brushing.
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The Spectacled Bear is the only bear that comes from South America. I hope this unique and beautiful endangered bear survives.
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These two pelicans were one pair of dozens loitering around the marina, all waiting for a fishy opportunity. The one on the left was an immature bird which had not grown into its adult plumage.
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