Janet's Garden - Part Two

Today I helped out my friend Janet on a variety of tasks. As you may recall in Part One I furrowed her garden on the first day of Spring. Below is how it looks now having already provided a plethora of garden greens, some of which are in my refrigerator. Note: Janet maintains an organic garden and probably could be convinced to sell her excess if one so inquired.

Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Scariest Scene In Movie History

Tonight I'm watching a movie double-header of Alien and Aliens with my friend Kameron. I have to say that perhaps the scariest scene in movie history is the "Here Kitty, Kitty" scene involving the character of Brett played by actor Harry Dean Stanton undertaking a painfully prolonged search for the cat Jonesy and finding not only the cat but quite fatally a soldier alien. Below is the final minute of this multiple minute scene of excruciating inevitability.

Picture of the Day - Solar Eclipse

Today's solar eclipse captured not the way I intended. I could not get my little pocket-sized amateur photographer's camera to not cause each image of the eclipse to be washed out with the Sun's glare no matter what I did to play around with the settings. Rather serendipitously I captured colorful double-images of the eclipse by way of two optical artifacts of the camera itself.  Both are located below and just to the right of the halo of the Sun. One artifact is blue-green and one is blue and both are probably identical images apart from their color and intensity difference. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Scripture of the Day - John (I John 3:20-1)

"For if our conscience convicts us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our conscience convicts us not, then have we confidence before God." 

 ~ I John 3:20-21

This passage has been growing on my mind for some time but with growing strength through unto the present. I do not feel any conviction upon me by this passage but I am intensely cognizant of its power and awaiting some clarification as to God's intent in it as it pertains to me. I feel on the verge of understanding this matter and I believe with some measure of confidence that it is more a positive than negative thing.

Harmony Headlands Virgin Visit

Today the El Ejercicios (well, a small contingent of them anyway) conducted a couple of coast walks along the north coast of San Luis Obispo County. For various reasons most members were unable to join us so we looked at today as partly for us and partly a recon operation for future walks for the rest of the group. Our first walk of the day was a first-time visit to Harmony Headlands State Park, a newer state park on the Central Coast of California. In attendance were Kameron McMeekin, Sarah Masters and her beau Anthony and lastly, myself. Dogs are unwelcome in the state parks system (an outrage worthy of a future rant here) so I had to leave my dog at home. Upon parking our two cars in the parking lot adjacent to Highway 1 we headed out the main trail towards the coast a couple of miles away. The following images were taken in the order they appear below. *NOTE: my camera battery pooped out while visiting this park and I was unable to take any additional photos for the remainder of the day.  

Following our visit to Harmony Headlands State Park we headed up the coast to Cambria, CA, and had lunch at Sandy's Deli where I had my precious, yes, my presshhhhiooouuussss Nanner Nutty Smoothie which I washed down with a Big Sur Tuna Avocado Sandwich.

Following the ensuing foodgasm I achieved from that culinary indulgence I headed up the coast in a cloud of dopamine and endorphins with just Kameron at this point as Sarah and Anthony had to leave us for work.
We drove all the way up to Ragged Point as Kameron had not been that far up Hwy. 1 before. We then turned around and headed back down the coast to the elephant seal rookery and watched the show for a little while.

After that we drove down to the old San Simeon townsite and parked at Sebastian Store intending to walk out to the end of San Simeon Point. Parking outside William Randolph Hearst State Park proper in order to avoid paying the parking fee we walked down to the beach and walked west until we reached the start of the trail out to the end of San Simeon Point. From there we walked out to the end of the point where we saw a gray whale leaving the cove and headed out to sea around the point. After exploring the forest of blue gum eucalyptus and Monterey pine we headed back to the car and drove home.

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

2012 Cuesta Graduation

This afternoon fellow El Ejercicios gang member Kameron McMeekin and I drove down to the Cuesta College main campus in San Luis Obispo and attended its 2012 graduation ceremony wherein two fellow-members of our gang were graduating, to wit, Dina Fahmy and Maile Kahn. We were late and thus missed much of the inane speach-giving but did make it in time for the part we wanted to see which was the walking of our friends and brief visit thereafter. Congratulations Dina and Maile - you both looked stunning and we're so proud of you and will miss you. Good luck and Godspeed in the next stage of your journey! 

The four amigos!

Dina Fahmy and I

Maile Kahn and Dina Fahmy.

Dina Fahmy and Kameron McMeekin.

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

Picture of the Day - Shark Alert!

Observed at the dog beach between Cayucos and Morro Bay and refers to an incident yesterday that comes on the heels of a great white shark attacking a kayaking fisherman near Cambria five days ago. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).