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A-Z Challenge: The Letter S
S is for Simian Sculpture! An offering that particularly appealed to Kongo at this year’s La Jolla Arts Festival. Travel safe. Have fun. Enjoy art. Related articles A-Z Challenge: The Letter R...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Glass
Glass vases for sale at the La Jolla Arts Festival. See more “glass” themes from Ailsa at Where’s my backpack. Filed under: Travel Tagged: Ailsa's Travel Theme, art, La Jolla, photography, Travel
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Car Monkey
Kongo spent a few hours today lusting after automobiles at the La Jolla Concours car show. So many choices! He hopped from classic corvettes to English sports cars to American muscle machines and...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Beaches
A harbor seal enjoys the beach at La Jolla, California. See more beaches from Ailsa’s followers at her weekly blog theme site at Where’s My Backpack. Read on to see a few more of Kongo’s favorite...
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Where Art Thou?
Kongo visited the La Jolla Festival of the Arts today for the second year in a row. The little monkey is really getting quite cultured. The festival is held on the campus of the University of...
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Torrey Pines
Torrey Pines State Reserve, snuggled between Ja Jolla and Del Mar, is the home to one of the rarest trees in the world. The Torrey Pines only exist in this small coastal strip and on Santa Rosa...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is Carefree. These lucky souls aboard this sailboat moving slowly off the coast of La Jolla last evening certainly fit somewhere into the carefree category....
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La Jolla Sunset
After waiting for weeks to have the time and a clear horizon, the monkey finally got his chance for an evening photo shoot at the beach last night. The light was great. The air was warm. A perfect...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Multicolored
Multicolored bottles pose at an art fair in La Jolla, California. Visit Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack blog to see more multicolored responses to this week’s travel theme. Read on to see more of...
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Under the Pier
Kongo took this image yesterday under the Scripps Pier in La Jolla, California about 10 minutes past sunset. He mounted his Canon 7D on a tripod, used a EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens set at f22 for...
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Scripps Pier
The Scripps Pier at sunset. This research pier is located between La Jolla Shores and Black’s Beach in La Jolla. Kongo snapped this image shortly before he moved beneath the pier to get the shot in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon
The Weekly Photo Challenge this week is Horizon — that special place in space where the earth meets the sky in the distance. The horizon image above was taken just south of Scripps Pier in La Jolla,...
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Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Silver
Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is silver. Above a wire sculpture at an outdoor art show in La Jolla, California provides a silvery countenance for the theme. When you touch the hair it jiggles for...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge today is PERSPECTIVE. The first photo shows the La Jolla shore yesterday afternoon with blooming flowers in the foreground and crashing waves against the rocks in...
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Pelican Love
You can tell it’s pelican mating season just by looking at them. The throats of California Brown Pelicans turn bright red and stay that way until after the eggs are in the nest. Both male and female...
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Sunset at Shell Beach
Last evening Kongo took advantage of a nice sunset to capture these two enjoying the evening at an overlook at Shell Beach near La Jolla Cove in San Diego. The shoreline in this area is usually...
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Flying with Pelicans
Yesterday afternoon Kongo spent several hours at the Gliderport in La Jolla watching paragliders, hang gliders, and sail planes floating and zooming above the cliffs over Black’s Beach. Check out the...
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Big Boy Toys
While watching hang gliders at the Torrey Pines Gliderport yesterday, Kongo also took time to check out the sail planes that were zipping about the human flyers. These were definitely big boy toys and...
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Fire Sunset
San Diego is burning up. Literally. Unusual wildfires are spreading across the county causing millions of dollars in damage, destroying homes and businesses, and causing thousands to evacuate. It’s...
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Peerless Pier
There’s something about piers. If there is one on a beach it becomes a destination. Those who like to walk on beaches (remember those old profiles in lonely hearts columns…”I like long walks on the...
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