Good morning Tuesday and some other lovely images of our local nature

Some more beautiful photos from one of my favorite local shutterbugs, whom I'll call the Sunrise Guy.This was taken this morning.  Sunrise Guy also went on a bird watching/nature walk in one of our open spaces on Saturday,  (Can you believe it's May already?), and this is what he found.

Good morning suburbia! Hope you had a lovely Saturday

Another glorious sunrise over Mount Reagan (er, Mount Diablo). This was taken by a reader and friend on Friday morning.

Hope you all enjoyed the amazing weather Saturday, even if you're dealing with recession to the blues. Rain might be returning to our area early this week.

Yesterday, my husband and I took our son to San Francisco to celebrate his birthday. He's turning 12.  The city was georgeous. We did silly things like go to an arcade at Pier 39 and play air hockey, went to Borders and bought him a couple books, drove to Twin Peaks to look out over a specactcular view of San Francisco Bay, and then to dinner.

We came across what I consider to be a a typical scene passing by Castro Street on our way to Twin Peaks: a protest, with some Harvey Milk photos, and a couple of guys in the crowd scantily clad. I mentioned that Castro Street was headquarters for the Bay Area's gay rights movement. This protest, though, had nothing to do with gay rights but with the proposed sit-lie ordinance, which the demonstrators were decrying as an attack on the homeless.

"What's that guy doing there in a thong?" My son asked. Indeed, there was a man standing among the no "sit/lie" demonstrators, dressed in a thong with his bare back and butt cheeks exposed. My son's continuing education. I shrugged and said "That's the Castro for you." 

Lazy Sunday...

Hope you have a pleasant day. It sounds very spring-like just outside our house. Birds are building a nest in the eaves hanging over our front deck. A woodpecker with a bright red cap is tap-tapping his way into the end of a sawed off branch in the Modesto ash outside our bedroom window.

For your lazy Sunday pleasure, here is another sunrise photo from a Crazy in Suburbia friend. The photo, with our great Mt. Reagan in silhouette, was actually taken last week, during a break in the storm, but it's very nice to wake up to.