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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Big
This week Ailsa’s Travel Theme is BIG. After reading the challenge this image of a large butte rising from a canyon floor at the Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico came to mind. Kongo visited...
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Erosion
Kongo visited Cabrillo National Monument yesterday to capture the effects of erosion on the California coastline at the Point Loma tide pools. Related articles Welcome to the new Cabrillo National...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines into Patterns
The photo challenge this week is Lines Into Patterns. The image above has a number of intersecting lines and circles within circles from an old machinery wheel sitting against a clapboard shack in New...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Brown
When Kongo read about Ailsa’s travel theme this week he immediately thought of the adobe buildings in New Mexico. The image above was taken in Santa Fe in July during an early morning photo shoot....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
Now the monkey is not normally a dog photographer. Sure, they’re cute and Kongo really likes dogs it’s just they don’t often pose well or they lick the camera lens or their eyes come out weird in a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
During the summer in Santa Fe bands play under a large gazebo and the local community comes to watch, listen, dance (with or without a partner) and generally do their own thing, as this interesting...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Silver
Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is silver. Above a wire sculpture at an outdoor art show in La Jolla, California provides a silvery countenance for the theme. When you touch the hair it jiggles for...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Work
This week Ailsa’s Travel Theme is “Work.” Kongo chose this happy guy directing traffic around street repairs near Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico for his entry to the work theme. See more “work”...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes
This week’s Word Press Photo Challenge is “threes.” To meet this challenge Kongo submits this image of three strings of red chili peppers hung from a house in Santa Fe. In New Mexico, strings of red...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme II: Work
Here’s another take on Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week, which is WORK. Last night Kongo attended a “steel cutting ceremony” at a San Diego shipyard. The ceremony marks the official start of...
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After the rain
After four days of rain, some of it torrential, the skies finally cleared over San Diego this afternoon. We needed the rain, of course. California is in the midst of a biblical drought and at Kongo’s...
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Big Boy Toys
While watching hang gliders at the Torrey Pines Gliderport yesterday, Kongo also took time to check out the sail planes that were zipping about the human flyers. These were definitely big boy toys and...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Metal
Metal and Harleys. They go together well, just like this couple out for a Friday evening spin around the square in Santa Fe, NM. See more metal themes at Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack Blog.Filed...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrast
Two contrasting architectural styles are illustrated in the reflection of an old 20th century building in the glass facade of a modern skyscraper. See more contrasting images at the WordPress Weekly...
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Chicano Park
Nestled beneath the San Diego side of the Coronado Bridge is Chicano Park. This is a fascinating place filled with interesting characters, dozens of intersecting lines, and some of the most...
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New Camera Old Sunsets
So the monkey has been really busy. As in crashing on one major proposal after another, sweating in those 18-hour days, composing hundred-page attachments and losing his eyesight in spreadsheets with...
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Parkma
Parkma is a made up word invented by Mrs. Kongo to describe her uncanny ability to always find a good parking place in lots that are otherwise completely full. To Kongo, the word also describes the...
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