Photoblog 2.0

Face and the Bay, photo by Harold Davis.

Another photo from the weird, run-down art park and ex-garbage dump that is the Albany Waterfront Trail…

San Francisco Bay, photo by Harold Davis.

This photo is a view of the San Francisco Bay from the Albany Waterfront Trail.

What a weird place the Albany Waterfront Trail is! About a ten minute drive from here, it is on a spit of land that extends into the Bay. Until 1984, it was the municipal dump for the city of Albany, California - once again proving that we don’t tend to understand the wonderful things around us. (Why a dump in this wonderful Bay of all places?)

Today, this a park with left-over detritus from the dumping years, “shrines” made by various artists, and glorious views.

Those of us living with our families in the Bay area realize that the disaster could have been ours. I’m not posting any photos in this entry. Instead, I want to note that the Katrina Relief Group on Flickr is having some success raising money for the victims by auctioning prints by Flickr photographers. Funds raised will benefit the American Red Cross emergency fund set up for hurricane Katrina victims.

Here’s the link to my specific auction on Flickr (you can bid on a print of any of my photos that I’ve posted on Flickr or that have appeared in this blog).

You can read about the auction in the official Flickr blog, and also donate directly via the American Red Cross.

As wide as an ocean
As deep as the sea;
It’s a lake in the mountains,
It looks blue to me!

A little hyperbole never hurt anyone, but it is quite a lake! I took this photo of Lake Tahoe from near Mt. Rose summit on Highway 431.

Chocolate Nugget Cowboy, photo by Harold Davis.

“Howdy, Pardner! Who needs gold when you can have chocolate?” - essential, apparently, for fighting Dementors and for prospecting. Found in Washoe City, Nevada.