Perhaps not as iconic as its nearby neighbour, the Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge is still an impressive structure. We didn’t climb it during our short visit to Sydney back in early 2002 – perhaps the next time we visit we will.
My favourite kitchen appliance, although to call it an appliance does it an injustice since it is not only a great espresso machine, but also looks great.
Next time I should try to get a photo of it actually making the coffee. This, and the others in my Flickr stream, were taken the day I got it and before I had made any coffee using it.
This is a close up shot of the underside of the hard disc that I froze to recover the contents from it. By the way, that same disc is running just fine as one of a RAID-1 pair in another machine now (both my main office machines are now using RAID-1 pairs – shame the laptop cannot, but the X40 only has space for half a hard drive as it is.
One of many street fire alarms in San Francisco; this one is outside the Ferry Building. Some have a blue reverse side that calls the police instead. Not sure how likely the side walk is to burst into flames, but at least I know that help can be summoned easily. And it doesn’t have far to come either; there is an SFFD fire station on the water front opposite the Gordon Biersch brewery.
The view from a boat house, along one of the many rivers in the delta area on a quiet summer’s afternoon. The clouds were just drifting gently through the sky, and the water was like glass, except when rippled by a passing boat.
A view along the San Francisco Embarcadero; the bright colours of the large bow and arrow sculpture (Cupid’s perhaps?) contrasting with the Ferry Building.
To end the week of hibiscus shots, here is one taken in Arcadia, California (near Los Angeles).
Here is another shot, also from Maui, of the red hearted yellow hibiscus flower that is fairly common on the island.
Today’s hibiscus is a beautiful white one, again from Maui.
You can read more about Hibiscus plants in their Wikipedia entry.
Another shot from Maui; this was outside our hotel (which is now gone, to be replaced by a new timeshare resort). These were also much larger flowers than the reds and yellows that are all over the Hawaiian islands.