Night and day

That's the difference between 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time Jan. 20, going into the last hour of the Bush presidency, and 9 a.m. PST, the first minute of the Obama presidency.

What a difference words can make. An Inaugural speech that focused not only on hope, but on an investment in a nation and it's people. It's a wholly different experience than being told to be afraid for the past eight years.

So much has already been said, I won't belabor the point. Goodbye to you, President Bush, and your clubs and your tramps.

Let's get to work ...

The biggest piece of seaweed I've ever seen

This is no doubt the biggest piece of seaweed I've ever seen.

Take a look:



It was down on Grandview the day after Christmas. I found it while shooting b-roll of North County beaches for the documentary portion of my thesis project.

The seaweed startled me when I first saw it. I felt that something this big should be living, in a higher species sense of the word living. It was a cause for pause ...