Rocks

Very low (minus) tides the last few afternoons at the beach just north of Cayucos, California - Estero Bluffs State Beach.  Here are a few photo of the exposed rocks.

San Simeon Castle

Maybe not the castle near San Simeon that your were thinking of ...

Sand Castle, San Simeon State Beach, CA

King of the Castle, Estero Bluffs State Beach

Flat

Photos of recently observed items - very flat!!

Seashore, San Simeon, CA

I Scream, Paso Robles, CA

Various Cats

Cats come in all forms.  Here are a few from close to home.

Sasha the Jaguar, Sleepy Hollow Zoo, San Jose, CA

Wally the Maine Coon, North County Humane, Atascadero, CA

Wally

Meerkats, Sleepy Hollow Zoo, San Jose

North County - Color or not

There are still some colorful spots around San Luis Obispo county, but the leaves are falling rapidly and vineyards are becoming bare.  Street and parking lot trees are still the most colorful items around.  The recent rains have added green grass back into the color pallet - the prolonged drought gave us dead brown hills until these last few storms.

Small trees - Santa Margarita

Old oak - HW 227 near Creston

Templeton Panoramas

I took these photos on Sunday - light was relatively even, and I was experimenting with hand held linear (not rotating) panoramas.

The first one shows the siding from an industrial building which has been painted with a terrific mural.

The second pano shows Santa and his friends enjoying some "down time".