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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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Boulders were laid out in a circle near the foot of Market Street, in San Francisco.
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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 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 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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A sign in a corner store window read, "Hot Piroshki."
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The exit, from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass concerts, was clearly marked and hard to miss.
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A tree trunk was in the shade of tall existing trees in Golden Gate Park.
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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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, (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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A cup, and a few glass bottles, floated in the Guadalupe River in downton San Jose, California.
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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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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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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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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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A large group of pelicans were perched on the fish processing equipment.
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This Capybara needs a good brushing.
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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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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 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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Prehistoric looking pelicans sun and preen in the winter sun.
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The pelican glides effortlessly over the surface of the sea.
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