Alcatraz Island San Francisco

A cargo ship passes in front of Alcatraz.

Union square San Francisco California.

North Coast, Highway 1

Oakland city hall

Before the Obama rally. More here and from Henry Wagner!

San Francisco Bay birds

The San Francisco Bay at dusk, what are all of those birds doing?

Lake Del Valle, California

Photo Theme Thursday: Water

Sometimes its just foggy

A foggy day at the beach.

Tilden park tree.

I think this means is spring?

San Francisco Chines New Year Parade 2007

Its the year of the boar (pig) which means there were about 4882 little Asian kids dressed up as pigs. The year of the monkey will obviously be the best parade ever.

San Francisco New Years Parade 2007

The lion dancers were out in force, I'm thinking of starting my own troop.

Fisher in the San Francisco bay

Photo Friday entry: Alone

The delta

I can't resist, one more aerial shot, this time of the delta area, east of San Francisco. You can see a bunch of wind turbines on the hills. The town might be Pittsburg California, but I'm not sure. More delta pics from PJ's Universe.

Flying over UC Berkeley

The East Bay with UC Berkeley in the middle (look for the stadium). You can see my apartment in this shot, I live in Richmond Annex between I-80 and I-580.

Sierra Nevadas

The Sierra Nevada mountain range from about 30,000 feet. Below is the photoshopped version.

The view from Marin County 2

Another view from this Carson falls hike in Marin county. You can sort of see the golf course, at least you can't see the dust on the sensor. The falls aren't really anything special. More from Rajiv Pant and Gambolin' Man.

Northern California Coast

This is near Muir woods off highway 1.

Berkeley Tree Sitters

Three or so tree sitters moved into these oak trees outside of UC Berkeley stadium in protest of a new practice field being built where the oak trees are now. They are supposed to stay in the trees full time, but when I was there, one of them was running around on the ground trying to sell tourists some books. Here is a close up of their buckets of urine:
The whole thing is very California. As far as I know, they are still there if you want to head out and see them (I took these pictures on Dec 26, 2006). More on the tree sitters here and here.

Santa Cruz

Sea lions near Santa Cruz.

Church of Scientology in San Francisco.

The Church of Scientology in San Francisco is in this neat looking building.

East bay hills.

Unfortunately, the green in the East Bay hills near Tilden Park only lasts a few months. More at Elongation to Break and The Greatest Blog in the Entire World!

Lens day Entry: Green