Picture of the Day - A Sunset At Halter Ranch

This evening I worked parking at the autumn pick-up party at Halter Ranch Vineyard in the Adelaida Area. The sunset and scenery upon which it cast its glow and shadow was worthy of sharing here. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Picture of the Day - Cthulhu Tree

For those of you familiar with H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos you will get this. Otherwise, just enjoy the image of this tentacled second-growth oak tree near Adelaida off the end of Jensen Road off of Vineyard Drive. Today I was out photographing this property for a friend who is a part-owner and looking to sell.  Photo courtesy of Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

A Ruin Ruined By An Earthquake

A couple of weeks ago I was hanging out with my new friend Chelsia and exploring the Adelaida area and happened by this old ruin of a small house on Klau Mine Road. It clearly had been damaged rather severely by the 2003 San Simeon Earthquake which amongst other things toppled its chimney. I trow not if it had been already abandoned by that point or if the quake had caused it to be red-tagged. What follows are some images of it I captured that day.

All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Adelaida Cemetery Cool Headstone Compendium

This morning before work early this evening I headed back out to the Adelaida Cemetery and shared it with my new friend Chelsia. Since I had already done a photo-study of the cemetery and its mood this time I elected to focus more on the headstones solely and celebrate their individuality and the stories they tell us about the people and about the period in which the headstones were designed and shaped. Most of the older marble and a hand-full of older granite markers I included here but the newer granite markers did nothing for me with a few exceptions and so I only shared the ones which did. I found today's gloominess helpful in giving these images a vaguely creepy monotone color scheme.
Check out my recent Haunting Return To Adelaida Cemetery. 

I don't know if this is a homemade replacement or the original.

I could not readily see the upper part of this broken headstone.

This bring to my mind Moses breaking the tablets.

I love this pink and gray granite.

Dad was a trucker....

... and so was mom.

There were not many wood grave markers but these were the two coolest ones.

Looks to be a Civil War vet to me.

I love its simplicity and starkness.

A sarcophagus?

All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).