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Photographs from around the Bay Area during 2009

An album has been created for the Yellowstone National Park trip of August 2009. The park was excellent. We drove 2700 miles round trip, and as you can see in the photographs, we had excellent weather and saw quite a bit of wildlife. There were, of course, the occasional “bear jam” or “bison jam”, but in general we were able to move around the park with no problems.

Yellowstone in August for wildflowers was amazing. It looked like the entire meadows and valleys were in bloom. Because there were so many and I couldn’t resist taking a few photographs. I made a separate album for the wildflower photographs.

Added a new album for fireworks photographs. July 4th 2009 was a very successful evening to view the fireworks in Livermore, CA.

Three new flower photographs taken along Monterey Bay are now in the flower album. Weather was overcast and windy, but the sun kept trying to peek through the clouds.

We spotted several Humpback whales feeding off the Monterey Bay about 2 miles out into the Pacific Ocean. Later in the afternoon we saw a pod of Gray Whales migrating from the Mexician coast heading up to the Gulf of Alaska for the summer. Three other wildlife photographs have been added to the wildlife album.

Visited the Niles Canyon Railroad which runs Christmas trains between Sunol and Niles. Old restored city buses are used to ferry passengers from the city to the train station. Photographs can be viewed in the California Album.

Decorated for Christmas and lit with red and green lights the new fountain in Livermore was quite festive. Other photographs of Livermore are available in the California Album.

During my recent trip to Idaho, I stopped along the highway and captured several images of the high plains of Idaho and Nevada.

Added two new flowers to the album. Yellow lilies and the Amethyst Falls wisteria.