A trip to the San Jose Rose Garden

We went to the San Jose rose garden the morning after it rained all night...All of the roses had natures natural water drops on them. There were lots of different kinds of roses. The roses are constantly being taken care of by a full time crew of gardeners. Here are my favorite photographs from our photography outing..fun.

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The last rose was laying down on the job.

A walk from Chinatown to Transamerica building etc.

Walking down the street from Chinatown we found this view:

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When we got down near the Transamerica bldg I took these photos and reflections on the buildings.

My favorite hi rise photo

A Trip to China Town in San Francisco

I have always wanted to go back to Chinatown in San Francisco.

 We went to a park in the middle of Chinatown.

 The parks occupants are mostly retired people. 

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People exercising

Lots of people were playing different types of card games

They had a band playing chinese music..which reminded me of chalk on a blackboard

Everyone was sitting around enjoying the music

The streets of Chinatown are interesting

As are the Vegetable markets

                                                                  Shopping for spices

                                                              

                                                               Interesting butcher shop

I couldn't resist taking a photo of this romantic couple walking into china town.

Coyote Hills county park Bird Watching

March has been a fun busy month...First we went to Coyote Hills county park in Newark, Ca..

We walked around and took photographs of Egrets and Pellicans.. The first is an Eqret by the road, who took off flying when we approached...Luckily I captured a couple of photographs:

I never thought I would enjoy taking pictures of birds with a point and shoot camera, but I did...Today these cameras can shoot up to 10,20, or 30 photographs a second. Here are some pelican photographs of them flying.:

This last pelican looks like he just put on his brakes:

My last two pelican photographs are of them fishing together: