Max Pictures’ Blather

…is a good thing. But, laundromats can feel like marginal places.

(From a depopulated laundromat on a post-Christmas day.)

…& Space (& Star Trek) Museum.
Miss T and I routinely visit Southern California (we have family there, after all) and are well acquainted with the weather, and the beaches, and the Mexican food. One thing that we don’t associate with SoCal, though, is Star Trek. Being set primarily in space, I can’t think of any [...]

…on a low-70s winter day.
I like the beach. Even better, I like it when there’s no one there. If you don’t mind near-total darkness, the hours between 2:30 and 5:30 a.m. are good candidates for having the beach to yourself. If you like sunlight with your surf and sand, however, pre-dawn is not such an [...]

…in SoCal.
Miss T and I were down in San Diego County last week. It’s raining there now, but my memories of the trip are all blue skies and sunshine. That could just be my medication though.
I’m still sorting through the photos on this one. No San Diego Zoo or SeaWorld pix—sorry, animal lovers.

…rolled.
Just playing around with the macro setting on the camera.

Roly-poly a.k.a. pill bug, potato bug. Officially Armadillidiidae.

…fog wins (the morning).
It’s been foggy in the Central Valley—the entire Central Valley—the last few days. Yesterday, the mist didn’t lift at all.
Fog in our neck of the woods, tule fog, isn’t like San Francisco’s—it doesn’t race along the street at 30 m.p.h. momentarily obscuring and revealing jaywalkers as you whip around corners and up [...]

…Christmas Fair.
It’s become a Max Pictures winter holiday tradition to visit The Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco. So, this year, like so many years before, Miss T and I met up with Programmer Girl (our friend and Dickens Fair denizen) at the Cow Palace for a day of Dickensian fun.
From the day after [...]

…early evening.
It’s pitch black here in the Central Valley now (almost no moon), but the sun was just setting as Miss T and I were on our way out of San Francisco earlier this evening.
The Bay Bridge isn’t nearly as famous as its counterpart, the Golden Gate, but it still looks pretty cool at night. [...]

…ramento (for you non-Central Valley types).
I’ve lived around Sacramento for at least ten years and visited Old Sacramento maybe three or four times. There’s probably a lot of history there, but all I’ve ever noticed are bars, restaurants, and candy shops—an inordinately high number of candy shops.
Undaunted by the threat of history and old-timey candy, [...]

…of people. (Well, very few with people, actually.)
One of my coworkers recently complained about photos of scenery in general and my photos of scenery in particular. “I’m so tired of seeing photo after photo of still lifes. What are you? Antisocial?”* asked WhittGirl.
As anyone who has seen me running from a crowd can attest, I’m [...]