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Photo Challenge: Magic

Another Friday rolls around. This week we’ve been challenged to, “…find some magic, and charm us with it.” My question to the author of the challenge, Jen Hooks, is have you ever seen the mythical wine flower? Have a great … Continue reading

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Vintage Data

San Francisco Bay Area employment data for August 2016 is summarized here. It was vintage “high-tech rules” in August with Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco Counties showing employment gains along with a seasonal/harvest-time boost for Napa while the … Continue reading

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Cherries on Top

Work is a four letter word! I enjoy my work; which must be some form of commentary about my personality. Regardless, my work does get me traveling all over the San Francisco Bay Area and sometimes throughout the state of … Continue reading

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Ghosts

Where are all the people going? San Francisco Bay Area employment peaked in October of 2015 but after a brief dip it continues to creep upward. Employment is still about 1.3% below the prior peak. The unemployment rate dropped, however, … Continue reading

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Partners

This week we’ve been challenged by Michelle Weber to share photos that show sync, partnership, people in tune… well, here goes!

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Pure

Quickly the week does proceed… Jen Hooks asks us – this week – to visualize pure. I equate pure to simple… everyone has something that comes to mind. Gladly, we all think differently and the outcome is an interesting world … Continue reading

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Spare

It’s really a spare structure… concrete and steel. Little in the way of ornamentation. It just happens to sit across a scenic gap between points of land in Northern California. It is worth a visit if you can spare some … Continue reading

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Earth

When I think of earth I think of dirt. I used to make dirt. Working for a florist you get to do lots of odd jobs. Mixing soil for various types of plants was one of those challenges from my … Continue reading

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Future

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard My kids are the future but they always yell at me when I point a camera in their direction. Recently, I was going through a box … Continue reading

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Landscape

It’s no April Fool’s Joke when Cheri Lucas Rowlands lays down a landscape photo challenge. Cheri has even provided some helpful hints on getting it right. Laying out a landscape photo is not as easy as it looks. I know. … Continue reading

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