Snows of the Mission Hills

Shortly after New Year's, we had a heavy storm here in the Bay area. While the lower valley just got soggy and trees falling down, the heights got snow. Apparently it does that fairly often around here; rain in the valley, but you can look up and see the snow on the highest hills right down to the sharp line where it stops. That happened again this week, and the snow came even lower down on the hills, but, alas, the clouds didn't lift long enough for me to get pictures off work hours. But, back on Jan 6, I went chasing around back of the hills to get pictures of the highest ones with snow on them. I got one; I also got a lot of pictures of cows.
( Snow and cows )

The Case of the Aluminum Cubicle

Some of you have heard about this already, but now I have pictures!

The guy who occupies the cubicle across the hall from me went on a trip for a week. His co-workers in his department had far too much time on their hands and were feeling artistically inspired, so they covered his cubicle in aluminum foil. I took incriminating pictures.

Disclaimer: these guys were not in my department, and I had nothing to do with the prank. It just happened to take place "next door".

( Aluminum Cubicle Photos )

Winchester Gun Museum - Part 1: The Evolution of Firearms

The Winchester Mystery House includes the Winchester Gun Museum, which is actually free to visit. There's also a Winchester Products exhibit off the gift shop, which I was not interested in enough to take pictures. I took a lot of pictures in the Gun Museum back during my original visit, and I finally got up the ambition to edit them into something presentable. There's a lot of them, so I'm breaking this article up into multiple parts.

( Gun Museum photos )