Near and Far

After visiting the Rink on the River, I headed west on First Street to see who was hanging out by the Truckee near Wingfield Park. Druing the summer months the place is full of people, but it is January. Even though the temperatures were in the 50s, there weren’t very many people out and about.

The first person I spotted was this gentleman smoking a cigarette. The low afternoon sun made for some beautiful rim light. I zoomed in.

Then I pulled back to capture his long shadow. At first I thought I liked the first one, but on second view, I prefer the second for the context it provides. Which do you prefer?

Weekly Photo Challenge: One

I’m a bit late to this week’s photo challenge.

While the Reno Air Races is a group event, I love to look for those moments when individuals are in their own worlds.

Tryptych

On this cold December morning, my thoughts return to warmer days. At the Reno Air Races, September 2013.

Fishing

At the Redondo Pier again. All these fisher-folk had a decidedly casual approach to their task.

Pearls

While we were walking around Redondo Pier, my brother steered me and his wife over to the pearl store. You pay to choose an oyster, and whatever pearl it contains is yours.

Linda and I each selected our oyster and the proprietress went to work shucking them and extracting our pearls. Linda got a cream-colored one. Mine was silver.

Brother sprang for mounting them too. Sweet!

Linda chose a pendant.

I chose a ring.

Breakfast

Good morning!

Smoke? What smoke?

It looks like we’ve gotten to the point that smoke or no smoke, we’ve just got to get on with our lives. That certainly seemed to be the case at this year’s Best of the West Rib Cook-off in Sparks. After running some errands yesterday, Sweetie and I made our way over to Victorian Square to take in the sights.

Packed. The place was wall-to-wall people. And as you can see, the blue sky was obliterated by smoke and visibility only went so far. There are usually hills visible beyond the trees.