Alaska 754 from Portland

And all of the way from Texas....

La Jolla Shores

When a girl 'does it herself',' it doesn't always turn out just right.

Gigi's and Lily's grandpa can speak before large audiences.  

He can write books.  He has traveled all over the world.  And now we 

know that he is the most patient and loving swing pusher ever.

One pair of the shoes is Grandpa's (the Professor's) 

and one pair is Lily's.

Can you guess which is which?

Lily would have liked to stay for the day, but we didn't bring one

 shovel or pail. 

She loved the water.  I don't think she has ever seen

 anyone run away from the waves as they come in, but she

 realized immediately that it was the best game a preschooler 

can play at the beach.  

Her joy was catching.  All of the grown-ups kept saying,

"Isn't it a beautiful day?"  

It might look as if we are at the ocean but the sand on the beach was a much bigger attraction.  

There were three large holes close to each other.  Gigi  seem to think it was a system of fox holes and she did her Army Crawl from one hole to another. 

And got very sandy.

Lily didn't need to crawl through the sand.  She had no trouble getting covered in it.  

Monday, July 29th,  with the sun shining on the shallow water by the shore, we saw lots of fish swimming right next to the beach.  They were caught in the waves and when they realized they were so close to the shore line, they immediately turned around and headed back into the surf.

The Professor and I saw the fish in the photographs above on July 17th.  At that time another person watching the fish told us that they were Corbina.  Were the fish we saw on Monday exactly the same?  I am not sure.  They were about 24 inches long as are the Corbina.

This corbina is pictured in Wikipedia as a California Corbina

In the pictures we took on July 17th, the fish on close inspection look as if they might be silver if they were not in the ocean water.  My judgement is still out on what type of fish we saw when we went to look at the tide pools with our daughter Lisa and her 3 daughters.  I have searched the internet and feel no closer to putting a name to the fish than I did at the beginning.  I thought when I saw them that they had another set of fins close to their tails.  The Corbina does not.  So for now the fish are mystery fish on my blog.  

One fish that is not a mystery is the Yellowtail that is caught just off the shore almost daily.  Fishermen in kayaks set out fishing and around 9 or 10 in the morning come in with a large fish that fills the front section of their kayak.  

University of California at San Diego - UCSD

The Professor and Theodore Geisel and the Cat in the Hat

outside the Geisel Library at UCSD

The engineering building before the "Fallen Star" was added.

Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering
The "Fallen Star" house designed by Do Ho Suh was placed on the
engineering building on the 15th of November, 2011

Geisel Library

Close to the end of the snake winding up the 

hill to the library.  Milton's Paradise Lost

The end of the snake is its head with its tongue teasing the 

pilgrim climbing the hill.

A few years ago all of the shrubs by the library were trimmed

back dramatically.  With the cover gone, all of the rabbits disappeared.

Of course the rabbits don't worry us.  We aren't concerned about the 

damage they cause to the ground and landscape.  Therefore, we were delighted

to see a few of the tiny rabbits back home in the shrubs by the library.