Local Atascadero Photos

Here are some pictures from Saturday's car show in Atascadero, which gave me the chance to get some practice editing photos with the Gimp. First there was a very cool pink Cadillac. Then there was the car that looked more interesting without paint - just the rusty unfinished surfaces were very colorful. The final picture is the Atascadero Feed and Grain store along Traffic way, processed to look like a colored sketch. What do you think?

Hot El Camino Cruise Night

Atascadero's officers leading off Cruise Night in front of Rancho Tee

The first real mini van

Vista Cruiser - our family traveled across the west in one in the early 1970's

Red Woody Wagon - never seen one in red before

Baby take me back to your Pink Cadillac ....

Lon and Eileen Allan in their vintage Navy Jeep. Eileen was the director of the North County Women's Shelter Program, now retired, and Lon is a local historian/author and regular columnist in the SLO Tribune.

North County Humane Society

Chloe say "I'm just waiting for your to take me home".


Another of the "old girls" at North County Humane.

SpaceX Dragon Parachute Test at Morro Bay

Space Exploration Technologies Corp, also knows as SpaceX, a private spacecraft development firm, conducted a test of their Dragon capsule parachute recovery system in Morro Bay on August 12, 2010. Morro Bay was selected as the test site because it had a large, secure area which was very close to the ocean. Here are some pics from the test.

For more information, please see the SpaceX website at www.spacex.com


Erickson Air-Crane Helicopter


Erickson helicopter above Morro Bay Strand Beach


Very cool Erickson helicopter at work over Morro Bay

SpaceX Dragon capsule lift off, Morro Bay

SpaceX Dragon test capsule over Morro Rock


SpaceX capsule parachutes deployed - about 5 miles offshore from Morro Bay


SpaceX capsule parachute test - water landing - 5 miles from Morro Bay
Recovery tugboat is in the right side of the pic.
Photo taken from Morro Bay Power Plant roof - elevation 150 ft.
Pentax K20D - Pentax 500 mm f 5.6 lens (750 equiv), ISO 100, 1/320

The Meaning of Life

As the Zen Masters say - Katz!

Buster says - Adopt me from the North County Humane Society!

Song For Los Osos

Some are awaiting, some overtaking

The train, it's the last out of town

Wasn't much of a town, anyway, and I never

Met anyone tempted to stay

To give it it's due

It was where I met you

And you were my reason to stay

Around

In this Prodigal Town...

The seasonal change, you can tell by the rain

Though the leaves never flame, they just fall

I hear Vivaldi come drifting on by

From the ladies quartet down the hall

If heaven has sent it

Or hell has just lent it

I'm hardly the one to decide

This train that I ride

Out of Prodigal Town...

Prodigal Town, Robert Hunter, Jack O'Roses, 1979