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Sunrise in Summerland

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Agave (Summerland, CA)

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Leaf in Bird Feeder (Santa Maria)

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Barren Tree (Santa Maria)

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Xmas Cometh (Upper East Side)

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Leaves After a Rain (Prospect Heights)

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Ginkos (Prospect Heights)

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I missed a fair amount of fall folliage while down in Florida, but not the ginkos which are still in their glory.
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Sunset Bike Ride (NSB)



One of my last evenings at ACA, I made a little movie of my bike ride to Turnbull Bay. The music is a beautiful sentimental excerpt from Gorecki's London Symphony.
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Sunset on the Water (Turnbull Bay)

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Cactus and Van (NSB)

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Madonna and Weeping Willow (NSB)

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Palm Tree (NSB)

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Faulkner Street (NSB)

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Spikey Plants (NSB)

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Ode to Backlighting (NSB)

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Sunset (Spruce Creek Reserve, New Smyrna Beach)

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Clouds (Florida)

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Fall Leaves (Governors Island)

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More God Clouds (Prospect Heights)

August in New York brings with it hellish mugginess and heat, but also great clouds!
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Oso Flaco Dunes Park (Guadalupe, CA)

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Pacific Panorama (Point Sal)

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Click on the photo for a bigger image.
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Point Sal Hike (Guadalupe, CA)

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Flowers (Santa Maria)

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More God Clouds (Prospect Heights)

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Hydrangea (Prospect Heights)

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Flowers and Peanut Shells (Chinatown)

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Dogwoods at Night (Park Slope)

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Dogwood (Brooklyn Heights)

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Wilting Tulips (at Home)

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Fort Greene

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Magnolia (Prospect Park)

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Cherry Tree (Park Slope)

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Magnolia (Park Slope)

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Cherry (Park Slope)

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Chesapeake House (Rest area on 95)

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Trees (on 95, near Baltimore)

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Cherry with Garbage Cans (Tenleytown, DC)

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Spring Evening (Tenleytown, DC)

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Spring on 95 (Cranbury, NJ)

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Pear Tree Blooming (Park Slope)

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April Showers... (Park Slope)

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Spring Has Sprung (Park Slope)

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Cherry Trees in February (Santa Maria)

Because of a couple of weeks of weather in the 70s, 80s and 90s, many of the cherry trees were already blossoming in Santa Maria.
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Panorama of Castle Rock State Park (near Boulder Creek)

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Fog, Castle Rock State Park

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Mossy Tree, Boulder Creek

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Pismo Beach Trees

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Palm Framed by Cherry, Santa Maria

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Cloud Behind Tree (Santa Maria)

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Point Sal Hike

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Jack's Garden

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Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Park

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Winter Cometh

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The Last Leaves at Night

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Barren Trees

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Rainy Leaves

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Full Moon Fall

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Beauty in the Ruins

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A Couple More Fall Colors

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Fall by Night

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Half the Leaves Are Gone

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Fall Rain

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Fall Colors at Night

I really love the fall colors under the street lights!
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Fall Around the Slope

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Leaves at Night

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Last of October

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Fall in the Slope

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Fall in Prospect Park

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Leaves Are Turning

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Fall Is Here!

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Summer Storm

A night of rain, thunder, and lightning...
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Santa Maria Trumpet Flower

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Flowers in Santa Maria

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Bees, Like Humans, Are Overworked

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It was called Colony Collapse Disorder, CCD, and was a description of the alarming decimation of bee colonies throughout the U.S. and the world. About a year ago we were very obsessed about it, fearful that the bees' demise was the canary in the coalmine of the irreversibility of global warming. What happened to that story? Was it just one of many soundbites of hype that briefly occupied our ADD minds? Or was it not as bad as we expected?

The answer is that we do have ADD and the bee losses are bad, but perhaps not as bad as expected. A virus is to blame for much of the bees' demise, but also a kind of karoshi, overwork. Now to the part I did not know anything about: the business of pollination. Did you know that bee pollination is a $15 billion dollar industry in the U.S., that approximately 1,000 commercial beekeepers own 90% of the country's 2.4 million bee colonies, that far more lucrative than honey production is the pollination of almond trees, a $1.9 billion dollar business (compared to honey's paltry $160 million and double even Napa Valley's wine production)? As food prices increase and the need to pollinate more and more acres of cotton, fruits, vegetables, and nuts, the value of the beekeeper's services increase. Like the chickens overfed and forced to live on 20-hour days so that they lay more eggs, honeybee colonies are driven around the country from one crop to the next to provide their indispensable services. This week almonds, next week, blueberries, the week after, alfalfa, and so on. In short, the bees are overworked, dropped into neverending fields of pornographically titillating flowers, and on top of this many are given hormones to stimulate their busy bee behavior so that they gather (and disseminate) more and more pollen. It's a fascinating topic, and I could go on, but you'd better get it from its source instead. If our planet is to survive, bees, too, will need shortened work weeks, guaranteed vacations, and much less stress.
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Musée Rodin

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Dogwoods and Nighttime Pear Tree Buds

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Slide Mtn Trail near Woodstock

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Pear Trees at Night

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Spring Has Sprung in Chelsea!

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St. Theresa Church at Night

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Fall in Park Slope

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Ginkos! Ginkos! Ginkos!
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