Beautiful Picture of the La Jolla Cross
It was 75 degrees today and beautiful. Not cloudless but just the perfect types of clouds to take a picture of the cross.
5 Lovely Love Pictures for Valentines Day
Valentines Day is a day of the heart. It is a day to say sweet things like I Love You and to give candy to someone special. Or you can give them a cake or a sweet present too.
Love is a many splendor thing. It is like a bird singing a sweet melody on a tree on a Spring day.
On Valentines day you can give your gal a smooch and say, Hey Babes, I love you Babes. And no one can call you less manly for doing it.
You can wear a shirt with a heart on it and prance around like Saint Valentine and shoot soft arrows at people – and they might laugh and join you.
Because Valentines is about the three little words that make the world go-round.
Beautiful Cakes by Tu
Just a couple of months ago Tu decided she was going to start baking and now she is being asked to do the most important cakes in peoples lives for them – Wedding Cakes.
Just Thursday she was asked to prepare a Wedding Cake for Saturday. Talk about last minute notice! She stayed awake late on Friday night preparing ideas in her head and came up with a beautiful cake arrangement for the Wedding. And she finished it with no time to spare, putting the finishing touches on it right before it was supposed to be delivered.
Surfs Up Scripps Pier La Jolla
Headed down to Scripps Pier the other night and it was gloomy. But not too gloomy to catch a shot of this surfer headed in from some late surfing. We’re not getting the storms they get on the east coast but we are getting some here in Diego.
The Walk
The man with the plan.
The man with the cane with the plan.
The man with the cane can’t complain about the plan.
The man with the cane can’t complain about the plan he could have ran. Right?
The Pirates Pier
This is a Pirates Pier. They bring Pirate Boats to the edge of the pier and load it with gold and rum.
Then the pirates drink the rum with Parrots on their shoulders and fight each other with swords and their swashbuckling boots.
Sometimes they throw one of the Pirates off this Pier. Kinda scary if you ask me.
5 Things you didn’t know about Petco Park
I took a little walk down to Petco Park to take some more photos of San Diego. Petco Park is a beautiful downtown stadium in San Diego which was finished in 2004 and has been home to the San Diego Padres ever since. It’s a beautiful area and I took some great photos of the San Diego Trolley cursing by in a real downtown scene.
There are 5 little curiosities about Petco Park that you probably didn’t know but I’m about to tell you.
Construction was suspended for 2 years because of a historical landmark.
The Western Metal Supply Company is an old building that was designated a San Diego Historical Landmark in 1978. The partially finished Petco Park sat in limbo while they fought it out in court and eventually came to the agreement to preserve the facade of the building and integrate it right into the stadium. It’s one of the best things about the park even today.
A Padres game was delayed for the most bizarre reason in MLB History at Petco Park.
In 2009, a game between the Padres and Houston Astros was delayed because a swarm of bees took up residence in chair that was near left field. Talk about a game being delayed out of left field. This was it.
Petco Park hasn’t helped Padres attendance, in fact its down from when they were at Qualcomm.
Despite a small bump in attendance right after Petco Park was built, the Padres attendance record at the new park is no better than it was at Qualcomm. The 450 million dollar price tag of the beautiful park was supposed to increase fan attendance and generate more revenue for the city which it did not. This won’t help the Chargers one bit as they attempt to get the City of San Diego to come up with at least 500MM in funds while they pitch in 200MM.
It’s the hardest park in the MLB to hit a homer.
Up until this year, Petco has been known as an extremely pitcher friendly park since the walls are farther of the batters mound that most other parks in the country. In 2012, they are moving the walls closer. I saw the construction while I passed by this afternoon.
The Beams in the park were painted by Chinese Workers on Boats as they were delivered to San Diego.
The beams in Petco Park are painted white every year to prevent them from rusting and to make them look good. The beams were sent from China but they were late. The Chinese company didn’t want to delay the order any longer so they put all the beams on a ship and loaded the ship with Chinese workers to paint the beams while they were making the trip to the US. The plan worked and the beams arrived pure white in San Diego and ready for construction.
I hope you enjoy some of the pictures of the beautiful Petco Park area.
