Feeling Grungy at Work

Here is my building again and I was in a grungy kinda mood so I played around with the colors to get this version of a shot I posted previously.

Chicago Theater from the Inside

Took a fun and informative tour of Chicago Theater, a wonderful art deco building that almost got the wrecking ball back in the 80's. The people of Chicago stepped up and helped save this beautiful building. This is a view from the balcony.

Another Great Reason to Vist San Francisco

Not a lot of explaining necessary here. I will say that the old Ghirardelli chocolate factory has been turned into a bunch of shops and restaurants that make this area of San Francisco near Fisherman's Wharf a fun place to visit. Oh yea, the chocolate is excellent too.

Freaky San Francisco

Is this window display in Chinatown San Francisco designed to sell art or scare away the customers? I love how you can't see the eyes. Wonderful freaky view.

Portgage Glacier, Alaska

Seeing a glacier up fairly close is quite an experience. It is a shocking shade of blue, which is not a color that I expect to see with a glacier. Even the water in the lake below the glacier has a strange blue/green shade that is quite different from other bodies of water. This glacier is only about an hour out of Anchorage so it is easy to get to. I saw this same glacier a couple of years ago. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it hasn't moved higher up the mountain from what I remembered from that visit. The "fog" in the shot is really rain as it was coming down pretty good when I took this shot.

Alaskan Berries

Saw these wonderful red colored berries in a tree right near Girdwood, Alaska. Tried to find out what kind they are, but there are so many different kinds of red berries in Alaska, that I gave up. Look a little cranberry colored to me. Anyway, nice shot of red and green looking up to the sky.

Turnagain Inlet, Anchorage Alaska

This waterway is a very interesting area. Not only is it breathtakingly beautiful at every turn, but this is one of only 60 areas in the world that has what is called a "tidal bore". As the old tide is still flowing out of the inlet, the next tide is trying to rush in. Eventually the new tide overcomes the old and a wall of water comes down the waterway at about 15 mph. I saw it once the last time I was in Alaska a couple of years ago. It looks like a wall of water about 2 feet high flowing steadily down the cove. I read that it could be 10-15 feet high in the spring. I missed it this trip as it happened while I was in meetings. Anyway, beautiful and very cool area.