September 25, 2019 - Water is essential
This fist leg of the trip from San Diego to Seattle is on the fast track with a tight schedule so we are trucking up there as fast we can. I’m lucky on this leg to have Mike driving so I can take photos out the window. It’s teaching me about high shutter speed and thinking fast!
After looking through the photos from yesterday I realized almost all of them were about water. Essential for life to exist. Traveling through the San Fernando Valley you realize how implausible it is we live in this desert. Signs everywhere marking our efforts to control water, live on water, grow in water.
It was great to see a few friends already, Candy in San Pedro and Liz in San Jose. I hesitate to take people photos unless I’m asked, but should rethink this as I’m missing sweet opportunities. Never fear, if see you on my travels I’ll ask if it’s okay to take your photo and if I plan to post them on this blog or on any of MK’s Photography Collection sites, I’ll seek your formal permission with a release. That said, please do ask me to take your photo. I’d love to!
Vincent Thomas Bridge in Long Bleach
Shipping docks in Long Beach
Pacific Palisades (I think).
Water transportation to LA
Irrigation piping transport
Death of fruit or nut trees in San Fernando Valley
Water reservoir near Gilroy. Notice the water level drop.