Saturday, September 08, 2007

Victoria.

Mission de Gloriosisimo Principe

O.k., we're going to have a little test next Friday, so listen up...
San Rafael, California, was named after the Archangel Raphael, who was "God's Healing Messenger"... La Mission de Gloriosisimo Principe (San Rafael Mission) was the 20th on the Chain of California Missions... San Rafael Mission was founded by Fray Vicente de Sarria, on December 14, 1817...

By the way, I noticed a sign -- the Sacrament of Penance is every Saturday, 3:30PM to 4:30PM, in case there is anything you need to take care of...

You won't believe this, but at the school right next to the mission, way back behind the building they are storing three huge wooden crosses that they probably use for their Easter pageant... It was so wierd to just see them laying there on their sides -- like they were waiting to be called into use... Nightmare material -- kind of disturbing...

vintage me

vintage me, originally uploaded by Henri banks.

phiten

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Friday, September 07, 2007

Some habits are hard to kick...

Axe

Axe, originally uploaded by Gary J. Wood.

Photography will be taking a back seat for a while as I learn to play this thing.

Breakfast

[photographed monitor version. for regular version and larger sizes click on the image..]

Mt. Tam in 128 colors

These photos, as .jpegs, seemed a little weak, so I decided to save them as .gifs... That's Mount Tamalpais, taken with the telephoto from Corte Madera... This is not an unfamiliar sight for commuters on their way home from San Francisco... The cold and windy incoming fog slowly rolls over that hill at the lowest spot it can find...