Cutie (Cattie) Pie
Sadly, I didn’t take this photo — but it is gorgeous. Lovely picture of our beautiful Olive.
Neighborhood Foliage
Right place, right time — of the day and year. All photos taken while walking the dog around the neighborhood.
Backyard Elegance
I’ve discovered that bright daylight shining through a tree can produce a beautiful image. Below is a red-leafed Japanese maple, and a flowering cherry tree (which only blossoms for a few weeks a year) — both of which are in our backyard.
Beauty in Tragedy
Tragic story around this photo —
Early in my time at Salesforce, my daughter had a coworker whose mom went missing — and they thought she might have gone astray on her way from the peninsula to the east bay. As such, I joined an effort to search the marshland near her town looking for (evidence of) her along the path she would have taken.
They later found her — turns out she drove off the road, and died. 🙁 It was an interesting/sad experience searching for her — with this photo being the only highlight.
The Band
This is a crazily artsy photo of the kids at Vasona park in Los Gatos. We joke that the photo looks like an album cover.
One Market
Here’s a photo from the inside of One Market — at the bay end of Market Street — which is a full-city-block complex of three office buildings across from the SF ferry building and the Embarcadero Center. The buildings are Spear and Steuart (modern office buildings) and ‘Landmark’ — the former Southern Pacific railroad headquarters.
I worked at One Market for two different tech companies (Autodesk and Salesforce), so it was interesting to continue to see my old Autodesk colleagues when taking the elevator to Salesforce. Also, it was fun to have office celebrations on the various roof terraces — including watching the Blue Angels practice for the annual airshow.
One Market has good shops and restaurants — some of the restaurants are fancy, some are great for office worker lunch. The complex has a nice courtyard for eating — which includes a fountain with a ‘shower’ falling from the ceiling maybe 100 feet above (pictured here). Unfortunately, the covid pandemic caused many of the restaurants to close.
Two more pics — from One Market windows:
Kona at Night
Downtown Kona. Pretty happening — relatively speaking. Places to eat, and have a drink afterwards. Plus there’s a shuttle that runs to/from making getting there and back straightforward.
Breathtaking View
We looked at a house in the Santa Cruz mountains uphill from Woodside — back when I was working a lot in Palo Alto. The house itself was pretty unexciting and far from civilization — but the view from the back deck was amazing. Could you image morning coffee or evening cocktails looking at this? (while the evil forest goblin waits for nightfall to make his move…)
My Pearl
We’re close enough to the coast that we duck out for oysters pretty often. The ocean cools our summers but warms our winters. Here’s a mid-winter oyster run with my lovely wife.
Waikoloa Resort
Photos of the Hilton Waikoloa resort on the big island of Hawaii. It is massive, and beautiful — they have a train and a boat to get you from place to place.
