A Weekend in San Francisco

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     Please allow me to once more be your annoying jetsetter friend with my story of how I spent the weekend in San Francisco the other day. Well, not so much a story but a collection of loosely collected images with very little information attached. Just like my real memories!

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    This is Hazel and our cat Markl standing in Hazel’s kitchen. Did I mention she’s from San Francisco and that’s why I’m even here in the first place? Right now I have so that’s out of the way.

Autumn in Alaska {2013}

It’s pretty neat up here when autumn rolls around.  When some trees turn bright yellow and the mountains turn white, it’s a visual poem in primary colours.

Hummingbird

There was a Hummingbird in our yard, and I tried to take a picture of it with my cheap zoom lens, and I learned an important lesson, namely that there’s a very good reason this lens was so cheap.
Caveat Emptor: Canon EF-S 55-250 1:4-5.6 IS.

Not a Hummingbird

“Farmer’s Market”

I was told we were going to a Farmers Market so obviously I expected a proper famers market, out of doors, multiple vendors, weird fruit. 

Instead what I arrived at was an indoors company store for a nearby farm. 

Well, alright. I guess. 

Hike with Dad, May 17

The Continuing Weekly Adventures Of Dr. Zachary Smith H.M.O.

 Today's Episode:

Lessons on Disguising Your Campsite from People {and Animals} Who Might Want  to Do it Harm.

 Dr. Smith?  Dr. Smith?  Oh, there you are.

 

What are you looking at?  George, can we cut to Dr. Smith's camera? 

  

AHH! Hey!  George!  Cut it off!  Oh.  Thanks.  OK everyone, its a bee!  

…zzkzkzk Hey Jack, what is this thing? quite the interesting specimen zkzkzk… 

Ah, Dr. Smith, its a Bee.  Most probably a Bombus terrestris or European Bumblebee. 

   

…zzkzkzk Thanks Jack, I'll make a note of that.… zkzkzk…

 Hey Dr. Smith, today's episode is about how to disguise your campsite against people who might want to do it harm, and since you specifically requested this title, I suppose you have something to say on the the matter?

…zkzkzk Yes, I do, first off I would like to welcome all the legopolians who are joining us today, and I would like to introduce myself, but we don't have the time.  So I am just going to list some of the more important aspects for camping with humans:

1. be a neutral color, like green.
2. camp lightly, leave nothing but footprints.
3.  Camp near lots of plants that are the same color as your Camp, like Taraxacum, they are quite good cover.
4. if the humans are friendly, Cave Canem.
if not, Carpe Noctem.

{George? what is that, Latin? I don't pay you to translate from  Minfigure into latin I pay you to translate Minifigure into English!}

{... --- .-. .-. -.-- / ... .. .-. --..-- / -... ..- - / - .... .- - / .. ... / - .... . / -.-. .-.. --- ... . ... - / .. / -.-. .- -. / --. . - .-.-.-}

{I dont care if that is the closest you can get, I expect full translation!}

5. last and probably most important,zkzkzk…

* CLICK * 

Dr. Smith?   Dr. Smith? Are you there? George contact the legopolian government, organize a search and rescue!

Next Weeks Episode: #20 The Coutinuing adventures of , who? Wait, whats going on?

And on that note I bid you

Good Day, and Best Regards.

Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.

Chief Executive Officer of SavetheCroissants.com.

Welcome to the Greenhouse aboard the H.M.Z peregrination

Welcome to the Greenhouse! Obviously Mr. Earl {the cook} isn't doing that great of a job keeping the weeds out, I see Onagraceae, Bellis perennis, and some Myosotis but none of my favorite flower the Taraxacum! It was wiped out by this evil invader known only as,

Moonlight Fuchsia

{dramatic music}

It is only known as that because I don't know the real name. Even after hours of "goggling" or something that sounds like that. It involves the computer. Any way if there is a botanist in the crowd {or even a gardener!} could you please come forward? I would like to know the scientific name for this plant, If you could tell me how to kill it too, that would be very helpful, thank you. You may wonder where I could find the space aboard my Zeppelin for a greenhouse, or why I would even need one! But I have a good answer, Sometimes we go over the ocean, or over the polar cap, and don't have enough space for all the food it would take to feed the crew for the months of travel. So I had a greenhouse put in at the apex of the outer shell to grow food such as fruits and vegetables. At least, that was the idea. It didn't really work out as we found out that potatoes can't grow at 30.000 feet. So we decided that we could just go around the polar cap. Although potatoes won't grow, flowers will! they act as our air filtarion system for when we are up above the clouds, where the air is thin. They are very pretty too.
Any way, to get back to the subject, I would like to show you some pictures of my greenhouse.

Hanging ivy plants, over on the right, and over on the left you can see our attempts at vegetables. {above}

A patch of lilies, {above}

and some pink flower we picked up in Africa.
I am sorry I do not know the names of these flowers, most of the time we pick them from the wild, from fields and such, where they grow free. But if you know the names, please leave a comment below. Thanks, I appeciate it.

And on that note I bid you
Good Day, and Best Regards.


Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq.
Chief Executive Officer of SavetheCroissants.com,
Quite the High Ranking Official of Early Bird Productions, Inc.