Wednesday, October 24, 2007

new bridge

The weather was beautiful yesterday, so I took the day off of work and went kayaking. I launched from Crissy Field and made a loop around Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island, passing close to Alcatraz on the way back.
昨日いい天気だったので、仕事を休んで、カヤックに乗った。Crissy FieldからTreasure Islandの周りを漕いで、Alcatrazの近くに通った。

I saw the construction for the new section of the Bay Bridge. They are definitely making progress, but I suspect it will be a few more years before they are done.
Bay Bridgeの架橋工事を見た。進んでいるが、もう2,3年かかるだろう。


The bridge on the right is the old bridge. It is not seismically safe, so is being replaced.
右の橋は古い。耐震性のないので新しいのに取り替える。

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Monday, October 15, 2007

Fall Colors

Sylvia wanted to see the fall colors, so we went to Grass Valley/Nevada City last weekend.
彼女は紅葉を楽しみたかったので、先週末Nevada CityとGrass Valley(シエラネバダの丘陵地帯)に行った。


Inside the towns, there were trees with good colors. I think these trees were imported from places like the east coast. The native trees do not have nearly as much color as these trees.
町の中にいろいろなカエデ色々カエデがある。その木は東海岸から移植したと思う。自生樹木はあまり紅葉の色がない。

In this picture, Sylvia was trying to look like a Japanese person, with her cell phone camera. There was pretty good colors in the background.
彼女は携帯のデジカメを使って、日本人っぽいだろう。背景にきれいな木だった。

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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Blue Angels

I was working on a presentation that I am giving next week, when I started hearing the loud noises of jets flying around. This weekend is an air show, which includes the Blue Angels, so I figured it was them practicing. So I went up to the roof to check it out, and confirmed that it is them.

They are basically just flying around. No stunt or formation practice yet - I suspect that will be later today and tomorrow.



Kind of hard to get back to working on my presentation with all the noise.

Edit:
With all the noise, I gave up on trying to work and went down to the waterfront to watch. They did run through their performance and I captured some pictures.







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