006 Fleetridge Cloud Walk

 



During a lull in the storm hitting us this weekend, we went out to celebrate and chase some clouds. Here's a view of the harbor, North Island, and Coronado Bridge for you, but NOT at our usual sunrise time of day.



And an early moon over downtown San Diego.



I stopped to look at a very nice rock/succulent display



which my wife took as a clue to go bird-watching. "There's a hawk!" she whispered. I did get a photo before he zoomed off.



It was starting to get dark so we decided to go over the hill to the West, for a bit more light.



We walked back and jumped into our white car, strategically (and accidentally) parked between two proud American flags, and drove a couple of miles.



Interlude whilst driving.



I had to stop for this Lincoln Continental -- which is illustrating what one does when getting the original top to work again costs more than the whole car is worth. Kinda cool in a weird way, isn't it? The world's biggest coupé.



The light over the ocean did not disappoint us.



And we found a nice tree too, with a squawking and whistling parrot underneath it (no photo of the bird, sorry).



Here's a long shot of the OB pier which we walked a few weeks ago. It got hammered by a storm and the whole left side is mangled. 



This angle is down about 1900 feet of pier, believe it or not. Taken from nearly a mile up the hill. Sad walkers were shaking the gates as if to escape from a prison (dry land?) and wishing they could be on the pier. But another storm is almost upon us...



We spotted a nicely-lit residential sycamore in the midst of all the palm trees, and took it as a sign to head for home before we got drenched.







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