425 Market Street

I was mostly on the 8th floor for a UCBerkeley extension class. but I thought the courtyard right out side was funny with the video cameras that looked like a couple of googly-eyes

Mount Diablo State Park

Donner Canyon and Waterfall Loop Trail

Today J and I went on a hike in Mount Diable State Park from the back side. the First part of the trail was fire road, but we eventually got to the trail we had originally intended to hike (by accident) and found a lovely trail with tons of mushrooms, and some wildflowers starting to come up.

Waterfalls are flowing like crazy after all the recent rain! there were a lot more than we had expected, and look up at the begining of the    trial you can see them coming down the mountain high above you.

The mushrooms are popping out all over the place.

More Mushrooms

 

Indian Paintbrush

Web 3.0 conference

At the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara. I volunteered to help MediaBistro with this conference, and was able to see most of the speakers.

http://www.mediabistro.com/web3/

Redcoats

Restaurant in Pleasanton, CA. Met my friend Amy here for lunch.

Academy Of Art Car Collection

Today I joined my Cadillac club for a tour of The Academy of Art Car Collection (on Van Ness in SF).  There were lots of awesome cars, some you can see through the window from the street - as of this week, including the pink Mercedes 300SL (original color), Bugatti and BMW Isetta pictured here.

World Pub

World Pub in Auburn, CA

I went for a hike in Auburn with my friend Jaime who is part of the #hiketweetup group in Sacramento. I've been on the hike before, so I'm not posting about it, but we did stop at the World Pub post-hike so I could try the Fox Barrel Mystery cider (A pear/ginger blend). From the outside this place is a total dive bar, but once you are inside, the interior is new and clean, though a bit basic.

They make up for lack of ambiance with their beer selection. There are like, 60 beers on tap, and a ton of specialty beers in the fridge. Unfortunately, the Fox Barrel ciders they had in house did not include the mystery flavor, but did include the pear and blackberry ciders. Both were good - very light, not syrupy like some ciders can be.

This may become a favorite after-hike stop in the future.

cold canyon stebbins trail

I've been on part of this trail before (the the homestead trail portion), but this time we hiked the loop where you get a beautiful view of Lake Berryessa. It's 4.75 miles, and the middle 1/3 is pretty strenuous...you hike along the ridge of a mountain, along 5 undulating peaks.



When we stopped at the top of the first peak for a snack, we got to see the top side of some flying turkey vultures. and also at one point actually heard the sound of a (crow?) large black bird's wings flapping in the air - pretty neat.