A short walk

I went for a short walk after lunch. Just north of where I'm staying is the tiny hamlet of Alviso. It's not so upscale-fancy as San Jose and Santa Clara (damn, I keep wanting to say 'Santa Carla'. Watched that movie one too many times...). In fact, it's fairly poor--reminds me of Bucktown back home. It's across a salt-marsh bayou from San Jose--they call it a 'slough', here. I watched a cormorant diving for fish in the muddy tidal water; some huge cane grows along the edge of the water. I still wonder what it was.
( Cut for picture )

[fic] Heart of Fire

[Transformers G1, late S3] What does Skyfire see in Starscream? A brief glimpse into the heart of Skyfire. Set some time after "Lost and Found" and "Loss".

Heart of Fire

Painted Desert Pictures, part 1

In my travel journal entries, I showed you a selection of pictures just to give y'all a feel of the country I was traveling through. Now I've had time to edit and upload all my Painted Desert pictures that were worth looking at--so, bypass this post if pictures of colorful Arizona hills, cliffs and rocks just aren't your thing.

I'm breaking this up into multiple posts as I feel like writing it up, mostly to spare the connections of friends and relatives with dial-up connections. Posting all of them in one go would just kill that 28.8 kbps line...
( Lots. Of. Pictures. )