Spring Time

These are also from the other day when we were out walking around Rancho San Rafael. A lot of different flowers are in bloom over there at the moment. Several of the flowering trees are full of color at the moment and look really nice.

Weather

The other day we went to the park and spent a few hours walking around and exploring. The kids were even trying to catch tadpoles in one of the ponds. It was such a nice day and now a few days later we have had rain and snow in the mountains. I should be used to the weather teasing you with a few days of nice weather to just go back to chilly and rainy weather for a few days but I think I am ready for some mid 70's for awhile. We have had enough warm days that a lot of flowers are blooming and many of the trees that flower are full of color. The cactus just seems to be a slight contrast to what it is like around here as when I think of cacti I think of drier areas than here. All in all the moisture is good for the area, just would be nice to be able to enjoy some more outdoors.

California State Railroad Museum Part 2

These are some more images I took at the California State Railroad Museum.

California State Railroad Museum

A little over a week ago we took a trip down to Sacramento just to get away for the day. It was nice to get in a little warmer weather than what we have been having around here. The first stop down there was at the California State Railroad Museum. This was our second time taking the kids there and they really like to walk around and look at all the displays and there are a few cars you get to walk threw. They also have a nice size display area with model trains, mostly Lionel brand.

Car Museum

Here are a few more shots from the car museum. I still have several more shots I would like to play with but it seems like life gets to busy at times, so hopefully I will get to more of these soon.

Hood Ornaments

Beth, the kids and I all went to the National Automobile Museum last week for an outing. There are a lot of really cool cars there going clear back to a few steam powered models. In a place like this where it is going to be hard to get any real interesting photos of an entire car one interesting thing to do is to focus more in on the details in the car's design. One area to do this, especially with the older era cars, is the hood ornaments. For the most part I don't think they do anything like these anymore except maybe on a Rolls Royce or something like that and I am not sure that they do either, so they make real a interesting subject.

Las Vegas

A couple weeks ago some friends of mine got married in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Casino. The reception was on the 64th floor in the Mix Lounge, which had a really cool view from the balcony. This shot is actually a few images taken from the balcony and then merged together in Photoshop Elements.