Hiking my Favorite Mountain Trail

On Thursday I didn't feel like running, so I decided to go for a hike with some cameras. The clouds and fog looked very dramatic from 101 as I drove home, so I thought there were some potentially nice photos to be taken if the clouds broke on the Mountain. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out quite as good as I would have liked, and the best photo opportunities were taken with the Hasselblad. That means I don't have anything to show from those pictures yet. However, I did take some pictures with my Canon.

Old Mine trail is one of my favorite trails. These pictures are from a part of the trail that I rarely slow down to enjoy when I am running, so it was nice to hike through here. Here is the trail:




Shortly after this shot, I saw movement on the trail in front of me. This little guy popped out of the next turn. He/she slowed down long enough for me to snap a couple of pictures:




Very cute. I told Cookie about the encounter and she wasn't surprised. Apparently she had an SMS from the little deer saying she had seen me. Kids these days are so well connected.

Finally, the whole point of hiking up Old Mine was to see if we could see the city. It turned out to be mostly just a dream...

Greenland is White

Here are two photos from my flight back from Frankfurt to San Francisco. I made them black and white, but really the only other color that was actually visible was blue sky. I looked for the green land, but couldn't find it.

My Mountain Trail Leads Home

Home at last. I arrived at SFO around Noon yesterday to find Lori and Cookie waiting for me. It's hard to beat coming home to your dog wiggling out in the airport and your beautiful fiance!

It ended up taking 36 hours door-to-door to get home. I didn't sleep too much because I wanted to be able to sleep and get back on California time as soon as possible.

I was able to get a run in yesterday afternoon with Cookie. It's very nice to be home.

Last night I got eight hours of sleep and woke up this morning at 6:00 a.m. That was great! This morning I am back on the foggy mountain. It looks something like this:




Though this photo was taken before I left for Africa. This is on Hoo-Koo-E-Koo trail, taken with the Hassy.

On the trip home I took some pinhole photos of the airports in Gaborone and Johannesburg. Here's Gabs:



And here is Johannesburg:


I shot the pinhole shots because I realized that I hadn't taken a single pinhole photo in Africa. That just didn't seem right; you know what I mean?

I also got some pictures of Greenland on the way home from Frankfurt. I'll try and post a couple of those in the next few days.

Cheers!