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Torrey Pines Yoga Sunset 🌅

  • Jun 15, 2020Jun 15, 2020

So, after a very pleasant graduation party for Prinesh, he was able to get back to his video game playing. And we decided to join Karin & other youngsters at the sunset yoga at Torrey pines where Alina was providing the music…

The sun was a couple of hours from setting, paragliders were taking advantage of the breeze and floating around when we arrived. After a longish walk across to the yoga area overlooking the beach, quite a few hip & stylish folks were in the middle of their yoga session, with newcomers arriving, one complete with her baby goat following her.

I walked around the cliff edge taking photos of the phenomenal views and the paragliders (while tactfully concealing my drink 🍸). Times like this bring home to me why it’s so phenomenal living here, as the views were breathtaking.

I spotted a truck with a large lens on a tripod in the bed, and went to investigate. Turned out it was a couple of military guys operating the equipment. When I asked, they said they were looking out for unidentified aircraft in the area! So we joked a little bit about UFOs, and when I asked if I could take photographs of them, they declined, so I only have a picture of the lens they were using.

After the yoga there was music by Alina and it was fun catching up with a couple of folks that we knew.

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Prinesh Graduates! 🎓👏🏼🎉 #Caltech2020

  • Jun 15, 2020Jun 16, 2020

So, just as with the other boys, four years have flashed by, and our youngest son is now a graduate of the California Institute of technology, CalTech!

We had ~40 joining the Zoom from CA, WA, NY, Toronto, London, France, Japan & Australia and a nice cheer and toast when Prinesh’s photo came up and name was announced. We also did a small quiz about him, and his brothers roasted him appropriately, Krishan from New York and Riki super early from Melbourne Australia ❤️❤️

See the summary here: https://youtu.be/P49-u1vJgmY

We didn’t know much about CalTech when he applied in 2016, beyond the name and historic reputation (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-universities-world#survey-answer) but he now joins a select group of ~16,000 students who have graduated CalTech since it got its current name in 1920 (https://archives.caltech.edu/about/fastfacts.html)

As with every other graduate in 2020, the ceremony was held virtually, and poor Prinesh had to spend a whole morning not playing video games so he could Star in the Global zoom call that we organized for the ceremony.

A couple of weeks earlier, he received his cap and gown, and belatedly told us that he had to submit his graduation photo the next day. We had invited our friend Karin over, and decided to find a suitable location nearby and take photos during the “golden hour”. Thankfully, instead of trying to race up to La Jolla, we remembered the Balboa Park Rose 🌹 Garden should be looking pretty nice, and raced up there, with cap and gown and mask, to take lots of photographs as Prinesh blinked and squinted into the setting sun! Karin took some of the prize winning pictures, and Prinesh patiently post with us all in different settings, only looking slightly uncomfortable 😣



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La Jolla Shores and Blacks beach

  • Jun 9, 2020

Now we have a few mornings that are not so grey, I went early to LaJolla Farms Road and walked down to the beach, and then back up the Scripps oceanography Institute, and then another day back up via Gliderport.

The days were clear and beautiful, with the usual surfers making the steep trip down to the beach, and I was surprised at how flat and level the beach is at lower tide. The sun coming up over the cliffs was just spectacular and as usual very photogenic ❤️❤️

The trip along the beach to Gliderport was equally unbelievable with the tide out at least 100 yards exposing flat and even Sandy Beach



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George Floyd protests downtown

  • Jun 9, 2020

As the terrible news about George Floyd sparks protests around the world, San Diego protesters have generally been peaceful and numerous, but police headquarters is sealed off one block all around with lots of cops hanging out outside

I took a walk downtown around police HQ, and along Broadway, and took pictures of all the businesses that have put up plywood in preparation for any trouble. It was a pretty surreal sight to see groups of protesters coming back from various rallies, as well as creative things going on, including spray painting of murals, and broadcasting music.

Definitely disturbing to see armed soldiers outside the halls of justice, although they were more interested in chatting with pretty girls walking by. Unbelievable that this is America 2020.

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