Ocean Views « Stephen Jenks

Spectacular sunset on July 18

By Stephen, on July 19th, 2012%

We had an amazing sunset last night – one of the prettiest of the year. Of course, these iPhone photos don’t do it justice, but the battery in my good camera was completely dead. There was a bit of a storm coming through, as you can see by the distant rain and the clouds, but the temperature was perfect on my back deck as we watched the sunset.

Rainbow on March 26th

By Stephen, on March 26th, 2012%

Sunday had really strong winds and rain that managed to find its way into the house via the construction going on in the kitchen. This morning, however, gave us a lovely rainbow. While the ocean isn’t very visible in these photos, it is there in the fog and mist.

Stormy weather means pretty seas

By Stephen, on March 18th, 2012%

We’re having a big storm in SoCal with high winds and horizontal rain, but on the occasion when it clears a bit, the ocean is beautiful with all the whitecaps!

Pictures from 3/10 walk

By Stephen, on March 12th, 2012%

Saturday was another lovely day, so we walked up the hill and along a ridge with a fire road. Lots of plants and birds and many dog-walkers.

: Downtown

: View across south Orange County

: Fire road

: Cacti with fruit

: Ridge of homes

: Down the valley behind the house

: More houses on a ridge

Neighborhood walk

By Stephen, on March 4th, 2012%

The weather today is magnificent in SoCal, so we took a walk around the neighborhood, along the path behind the house up to a ridge, then back down a trail into the valley south of our street.

: Catalina in the distance

: View towards downtown

: Southern Orange County view

: Me on a walking path

Ocean Views category now on front page

By Stephen, on January 9th, 2012%

I originally kept the Ocean Views category off the front page, because I had ambitions to put up a picture every day or two. Well, that hasn’t worked out, so I will let those posts show up on the front page. They will certainly not interfere with the web crawlers that grope their way through my site hourly. The ocean pictures posts should be infrequent enough that they won’t bother the one or two actual humans that visit the site looking for parallel computing stuff or Hiperwall history.

Jan 8 – Rising morning clouds

By Stephen, on January 8th, 2012%

The weather got a bit colder and foggier yesterday, but this morning, we had bright sunshine on top of the hill, while the fog settled in the valleys and on the ocean. Mid-morning, though, the fog rose in great billows, as these photos show. You can see Catalina Island in a couple of the pictures, and in one it is clear that the fog does not extend all the way there.