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floating over a retired blackbird with the cooper's hawk

2003-10-25 - 6:35 p.m.

all photos © 2003 by Elaine Radford

african bird mask in natural history museum

Raptors Seen: Cooper's (male adult), Red-Tail (western adult).

poster warning of the hazards of crazed german zeppelins attacking london from the early 20th century in the aerospace museum

I thought the whole fog thing was supposed to be a San Francisco specialty, but we were fogged in today until 9 A.M. The daring duo walked to Balboa Park with our cooler of Bud and investigated the various museums. I'm going to say that the Science Museum should have been free courtesy of their corporate sponsors Sony, Qualcomm (sponsor of the city of San Diego and, damn, all this time I thought it was the U.S. Navy!), etcetera and so on. However, the tiny San Diego Gem and Mineral Society within the Spanish Art Village was a treasure, with some thoroughly enjoyable mineral specimens.

amethyst crystals, Brazil, natural history museum

And the big spectacular wow-ser museum of the day had to be the Aerospace Museum. Perhaps we don't need paintings of every aviator and astronaut to "loose the surly bonds of earth" -- does it really matter what Wally Schirra, say, looked like? -- but the museum as a whole was overwhelming in its impact.

never deployed global positioning satellite in air and space museum

I'm about to go enjoy a fancy dinner in a classic red leather booth steakhouse of days gone by, having already enjoyed the wicked social hour at our hotel. Hmm. Come to think of it, I don't believe I've missed a social hour yet.

detail, building in balboa park

Scenes from the Orchid Show at Balboa Park:

white scribbles like writing on this bright red orchiddon't adjust your dial, those petals are supposed to be greena mysteriously unflowerlike orchid

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