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Flight from SFO to London Heathrow. Upgraded to business class (thank goodness). King Kong. Beef short ribs. Pecan crusted chicken. Lot’s of wine. Landed and breezed thru the priority arrivals line. Took the Heathrow Express train to Paddington Station and then a cab to the hotel. Hilton Green Park. Small comfortable modern room. Walked through Green Park to Buckingham Palace. Queen’s Gallery. Westminster. London Eye. Lunch on the Thames at Eat, a local chain of gourmet sandwich shops. Thames walk to the Millennium Bridge at the Tate Gallery. Crossed to St. Pauls Cathedral. Walked through The City and then back along the river. Well needed shower and nap. Dinner at a nearby pub in Shepard’s Market, a cozy square in Mayfair. Fish and chips at the King’s Arms. Shrort walk through Mayfair. Chrashed for a nice cool night.

Jeff and I begin vacation today, and that will most likely result in a dearth of blog entries. But who knows, these mobile posting techniques I tried a couple of weeks ago might allow some updates from the field. But more importantly, at 1pm, Jeff and I will be sipping wine on a plane bound for London. Before we return, we’ll visit Paris, Amboise, and Venice.

Ciao. [Don’t UN-bookmark my page in my absence!]

I worked on a couple of new ‘industrial’ images this evening. The first is another in what could easily become a chair series…if I needed a gimmick 🙂 But seriously, where the hell do all of these chairs come from. I’ve got a couple more that I snapped pictures of this weekend.

But more fun is the new part of the Bayshore neighborhood that I found this weekend. This is an area called Islais Creek (or Islais Inlet). It is a remnant of two former creeks that were slowly filled in over the years to expand the waterfront. I may have to return for more images after we return from vacation.

Well, it would seem that Bobgirl’s reminiscing about Elena #1 triggered a response from the other side of the globe. But not a good one.

I think we’re reaching the “angry” phase of the Elena story, where people don’t send her money and she acts “offended”.

Sorry. But I understand you do not want that I arrived to you or you do not want to help me on trip to you. It is insulting. I think that you write to me only for dialogue. Is it the truth?

I’ll try to trigger another reply, but this could very well be Elena’s swan song.

I would never have thought that I would be writing rain updates in late May! But there is just this odd disturbance rumbling through, producing a few days of scattered showers.

So, if I can return to rain blogging, then I can take a few new images in my industrial series. Today’s theme: color. I continue to find new parts of the Bayshore neighborhood that I haven’t been through. It’s strangely comforting to drive around in the early morning light.

But life is not ALL rain and graffiti. It is spring, after all. So, I present here three springtime images. The first is of one of Jeff’s favorite orchids…this one smells like chocolate! Jeff has four orchids in bloom at the moment. The third image below is of one of our lemon trees, which is now producing enormous lemons. So, I’m making lemon-butter grilled shrimp tonight 🙂