Find it, you must

The end of the weekend came (sadly), but before I embarked on my arduous drive home (although it was softened by Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" audiobook), Bunny and I took to the streets to explore San Francisco's Presidio, where Lucasarts has a presence. Our goal was simple - locate and photograph the Yoda fountain. As you can see below, we found it and spent some moments photographing it. We wandered between the Presidio and the Palace of Fine Arts and Bunny captured beautiful pictures of the palace behind the cherry blossoms and a tulip tree. I took a moment to immortalize the blue sky and the fountains near the palace. Oh, and we learned that the Palace of Fine Arts was constructed as parts of the PPIE - the Panama Pacific International Exhibition - in order to commemorate the completion of the Panama Canal




Oh, and here's a car with a mustache!

A Great Day in the Bay

The day started with a quick trip to Blick with Teenie and her friends; they needed art supplies and I had a car. But the venture was equally fortuitous because I found something I didn't even know existed - Anthracite colored spray paint! Anthracite is the carbon-coating on my car wheels - and soon to be the color of my interior trim pieces - I bought 3 cans.


After shopping, Bunny and I spent the day wandering around the city and the park. We went to Stow Lake and found ourselves hiking up the little mountain in the middle of the lake. When we got to the top we found the little overlook for the waterfall

From this spot we noticed the fluttering of two tiny hummingbirds playing by the rocks in the stream! Happily I managed to snap a pictures of them;

IZZI

I looked and saw that so far I've only posted 6 times this year;

So, in the spirit of trying to be not lazy (I have a test in Geography tomorrow!) I want to post some pictures of a puzzle called IZZI that I play with at work.

IZZI is not a traditional puzzle - the rules are simple: match black portions to black portions and white portions to white portions. The internal pattern of the tiles help to make different combinations possible. I've finished the puzzle a few times with students and they always come out different. The one caveat? The box is missing a piece! The complete incomplete puzzle is bittersweet, but fun to do nonetheless.

Without further ado, IZZI:


(Little IZZI)