Visiting Chilean Naval Training Vessel Gets Some Real San Diego Love ! Throngs of San Diegans wait to board the Chilean Naval Training Vessel, the Esmeralda visiting the Port of San Diego. The lines stretched for as far as one could see for the 2:00PM to 5:00PM on board visit. So why was I here s
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07/15/2011
Photography | Seeing What's in Plain Sight in Perhaps a New Light For most of you that follow my blog, you know that I promote the city of SAN DIEGO for it's many attributes, it's historical significance, housing, events and the many other amenities of living in San Diego. I attended one of the m
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07/11/2011
San Diego Public Transportation Celebrates 125 Years of Service. 125 years ago, public transportation was first introduced to the small town of San Diego. In 1880, San Diego had a population of about 2500 people exploding to 30,000 in the following six years. In 1886, San Diego had as it's first
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07/09/2011
A symbol of Strength ! Benjamin Franklin disapproved of the Eagle as our nation's symbol of strength. He said once that the eagle was a bird with bad moral character. Thieving and lording of others without regard. Today, there are factions in the world that might agree with old Ben. But they wou
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07/08/2011
To Big To Fail ? Nonsense! A few years ago, I purchased what was tagged as a Dwarf Lemon Tree and was reminded by the nurseryman that the tree has two seasons for bearing fruit and that it must be fertilized twice a year. I figured if twice a year was good, 3 or 4 times would be better? Wrong
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07/08/2011
Gorilla Marketing or Guerilla Marketing If you have been in real estate for at least a few years, you have likely heard of Guerrilla Marketing but what does it mean to you? Years ago Joe Stumpf had a whole marketing system based on Guerrilla Marketing and for it's time is was very pro-active. But
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07/05/2011
Lights of the City of Downtown San Diego Attending the Fireworks on San Diego Bay for the July 4th Big Bay Boom, I was positioned out on the roof of one downtown's parking garages that was overlooking the San Diego Embarcadero Marina South. Looking to North, gave a wonderful view of the lights i
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07/05/2011
What's Better Than A Beautiful Tropical Fish? Two of them! One of the real joys I have as an amateur photographer is sharing some of the glorious colors obtainable in photographing animals at our famous San Diego Zoo or the wonderful Birch Aquarium. With so many choices of subjects, I like this o
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07/04/2011
San Diego Celebrates July 4th Fireworks for San Diego Big Bay Boom will be discharged this year from 5 Bay locations. Shelter Island, Harbor Island, the Embarcadero, Seaport Village and Imperial Beach. All to the accompaniment of "Celebrate America" music provided by FM Radio, station 105.7FM The
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07/04/2011
Photography, Marine Life Can Be So Interesting No doubt, some of the most magnificent colors found in the animal world are often found in the great seas of the world. Living in San Diego, looking out to the Pacific Ocean and seeing a body of blue, often made silver by the refection of the Sun, wh
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07/03/2011