Grand National Roadster Show Skywatch Friday

A lone Kustom parked at the Fairplex in Pomona Ca for the Grand National Roadster Show.

Beautiful blue sky above.

We have had rain for the last couple of years at this event and it was a welcome 4 days of sunny dry weather with highs in the upper 60’s!

I spent 3 days of the show working at the Pinstriper’s reunion . There were at least 30 very talented stripers there and a huge amount of art was produced for the public and for our charity auction.

Here are a couple pictures of the Pinstriping event.

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Bobs Birthday ( also Skywatch Friday! )

Last Saturday we had a break from the pouring rain and drove up to our daughter’s to spend the day for Bob’s birthday.

She had an entire day of being a “tourist” in Los Angeles planned for her dad!

Even though we have  lived here all of our lives there are some places that we have just never been to, because we think to ourselves ” oh that will always be there, we can go anytime”.

We went to the Tar Pits, Olivera St and all kinds of places,ate a lot of yummy food and stayed out way too late (for us!)

The BEST place all day of a bunch of really good places was … the… Do-do-do-do -do -do-do-do…BATCAVE!!!

The Batty  Birthday planner herself !

Yep we hiked into the back of Griffith Park and visited THE  Bat Cave!

It is where you see the Batmobile (1966 edition) race into a turn off with a cave . It was pretty awesome!

The photo above is for Skywatch Friday,the gray/blue Los Angeles sky peeks through the back of the actual Bat Cave! That is my Son-in-law George and my DH Bob coming back from their Bat-tastic adventure in the Bat Cave …BANG! ZOW! POW!

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Every week…same Bat time, same Bat site !

Sky Watch Friday Windy Ridge

The view today is from the 91 Freeway at the 241 toll road, known as Windy Ridge and boy was it windy today!  35 to 50 MPH gusts with driving rain!

This is another “from the car” straight out of the camera shot.  Yes, my windshield IS very clean since it had been rained on all day!

The rain has been falling all week here in So Cal ,very strange for us to see more than a day or two of the wet stuff at a time. We had the first of four storms begin Sunday night, then Tuesday another, Wednesday yet another and the last storm slap was today with rain through Friday evening.

I drove in to Orange to go antiquing with a friend ( this is both business and fun for me!) or I would not have been out in the rain today at all.

We were lucky to avoid the rain drops all morning  darting in and out of the shops. We watched the wind-blown storm roll in as we ate a yummy lunch at Rutabegorz . When we returned to the sidewalk it was clearing up a bit so we went in another shop…bad choice! We were faced with a deluge between us and the car, oh well it is only water so out we went.

We had a good day , rain and all.

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Skywatch Friday Storm Clouds,Sushi & Cookie Sheets

We had an amazing sunset yesterday . The sun was peeking through a momentary break in the storm clouds . The actual rain was moving away and a little cloud cover was rolling in from the Pacific overnight. Today we have clear sky and gusty wind throughout the Southland.

The photo above was taken on the I-15 South at about 70 MPH (Daughter took it from the passenger side!). It is straight out of the camera. We were returning home after a shopping day and all of a sudden the sky was glowing all orange and gold and we were both “get the camera! this is the moment!!!)

We had a nice day out shopping during which I was able to check off two items from my 101 things in 1001 days list.

#11 Have Sushi with Ayleen: Done ! Stopped at Rolling Rice in Rancho and had lunch. We had avocado roll, Cucumber roll and a yummy crunch roll plus a bowl of Edamame that may have been a little too salty but still really yummy!

#27 New cookie sheets : Done! Have enough good cookie sheets and cooling racks to bake a double batch all at once now!

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Skywatch Friday ~ Hazy shade of Winter

We are in the early winter warm spell we often have in January here in Southern California.

The smog has returned and the sunsets are striking beyond the empty tree branches.

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Skywatch Friday New Year’s Eve

Well here we are again at the end of an entire year , hurtling toward the new one only hours away.

Even a cynic harbors a smidge of hope that the fresh  calendar will bring good days ahead.

This is the leading edge of a one day rain event  rolling in from the Pacific over the Santa Ana mountains on the afternoon of Dec.29th.

Go out and make 2010 a good year !

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Merry Gumby Christmas Skywatch Friday!

This is a giant metal Gumby that resides in this guys yard all year with his pal Pokey across the driveway.

He has donned a Santa hat and holds a string of lights for the season.

Have a great Holiday week everyone!

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First Winter Snow ! Skywatch Friday

First Southern California Snow of the season fell last weekend, more should arrive this weekend.

View of Mt. Baldy  from Corona foothills , across Prado dam and the 91/71 interchange.

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Skywatch Friday~December’s Full Cold Moon

This is the Full moon of December, known as the Full Cold Moon or The Long Night Moon.

The hovering light to the left is just a street light  poised to take over the entire planet.

Missed last week because Thanksgiving was super in every way, super fun, super tasty and super full  of friends and family.

Hope every single one of you out there has had a good week too!

I may have had too much coffee this morning!!!

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Cactus Flower Moon on Skywatch Friday

Two striking photos this week.

The clear bright blue Autumn sky above a lovely Cactus flower,multi hued leaning over the front yard wall. I have never seen this cactus bloom in multi-color until this year and never so tall ,about 11 feet up!

Very glad I took this picture when I did, the ladies next door cut it down to use about 3 hours later!

This sliver of a moon rose about 6 pm tonight, I took this on my way home from work. Outside temp about 76 degrees , a lovely Autumn moonrise and a cooling trend on the way, perfection or close enough!

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