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 3
Spring Sunday in the City: Part 2
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
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 information about Cartier and the exhibition pieces.
Once of my favorite parts of the exhibit was the room with Cartier’s renderings. While in the room I picked out a couple of favorite designs and was happy to see them realized in precious metals and stones in other rooms of the exhibit. Visiting the rendering room again after seeing the entire exhibit, I was surprised to note how many of the rendered pieces were on display in the exhibition.
Film stars in the past used to wear their own jewelry in films and on the red carpets. Amazing considering the amount some wore. The scanned in postcard shows flexible bracelets that Gloria Swanson wore in a film.
Spring @ Filoli
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 be a lot of these dramatic poppies
I did mention there were lots of tulips, didn’t I? 🙂
Steamer Lane
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
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
an obvious fact came across my desk today. there are subject specific blog directories such as BLOGbal
Prototype Earrings
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 version would use handmade fancy wire to hang the filigree oval and circles into set configurations.
Ocean In the Desert
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
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 overheating all the time. A good sign is that the computer has run steadily without lockups since the fan was cleaned and the Arctic Silver 5 thermal grease was applied. Most importantly, it’s been running without a floor fan pointed at the open back of the computer. 🙂 Fingers crossed….