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  • Spring Sunday in the City: Part 3

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    Tulips at the Golden Gate Park’s Queen Wilhemina Tulip Garden were accompanied by generous plantings of poppies. All phases of the bloom were evident I enjoyed taking these before, during, and after-the-bloom photos

  • Spring Sunday in the City: Part 2

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    After visiting the Cartier and America exhibit, we stopped by Golden Gate Park‘s Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden. After knowing about the garden for  a few years, I am happy that I remembered it during tulip season.

  • Spring Sunday in the City: Part 1

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    Yesterday Pat Accorinti and I made an early morning visit  to the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco for a Metal Arts Guild organized private tour of the Cartier and America exhibit. Our group had a 30 minute head start on other museum visitors. Our enthusiastic docent shared a lot of good…

  • Spring @ Filoli

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    Spring arrived a week early in northern California. The weather was almost summery. Luckily the tulips were still in full bloom at Filoli. Flowering trees and a colorful herb garden are among the other attractions that 15 full time and 120 volunteer gardeners tend A fellow visitor was telling us that in May there will…

  • Steamer Lane

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    Surfers are present year round in Santa Cruz, especially at Steamer Lane. Now that the rain has let up, photographers are on the rip rap below the cliff. Can’t get enough of this nice view….

  • A riveting demo

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    Picture phone shot taken at a riveting demo by Lynne Todaro of Mission College for the Metal Arts Association of Silicon Valley. Lynne did a great job showing how to rivet, and reminding those of us who’ve done it in the past that annealing the metal to be riveted is key to success.

  • subject directories

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    an obvious fact came across my desk today. there are subject specific blog directories such as BLOGbal

  • Prototype Earrings

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    I took a few pairs of earrings, disassembled them, and reassembled parts into these prototype earrings. My idea is to have smaller square wire jump rings on the earring frames which are  currently sitting on the workbench ready to be filled. Flexible, swinging earrings similar to these prototypes are one version I’m mulling, and another…

  • Ocean In the Desert

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    While in the desert area around Tucson Arizona I went to an ocean. Granted, it was a small one with an automatically induced wave every five minutes. And, it was inside this structure – Biosphere 2. The rainforest biodome in Biosphere 2 was so humid that all camera lenses fogged up.

  • Overheating

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    Now that’s what a processor fan is supposed to look like! That is not what the thermal grease between the processor fan and the CPU are supposed to look like And, eeewww, that’s what the processor fan did look like before cleaning Maybe now the case on the computer can be closed without the unit…