Pleasanton BART

Love the wavy architecture of the Pleasanton BART station...

While the station zooms past us, it feels like a wave dancing alongside us! :)

Nice caption

Seen at a BART station...

Relief work at chipotle

For the first time, I noticed the relief work in some material other than wood and metal... Looked different but in line with Chipotle's interior decoration...

Knotty Tidbits: 15

Title: Mini-golf

Played with each other... Played against each other...
Cheering and booing all the way to hole-20...
What fun! :)

Coffee!!

From a coffee shop in Block Island...

I have never been a coffee fan... But this slogan looks interesting! :)

Bulls bridge

This is a 19th century bridge in Kent, Connecticut. 

It connects two states: Connecticut and New York.

It is over Housatonic River.

It has little openings to get a view of the river

An inside view of the bridge...

We went down a trail to wet our feet in the river :)

In the below photo,notice how calm the water is before it hits those rocks... It almost looks still...

 

An encounter with emergency

On the way to office, we see lot of police cars blinking their blue, red and yellow lights. We wonder what it is. Far away, we see a giant fountain of water!

We move ahead... The two lane is merged to one...

We drive through the slush... There is so much water on the road...

Probably a water pipe is broken... But the gushing water is higher than the electric wires strung across the poles...

Water coming out with so much force!

But by the time we return from office, everything is gone... And if we did not see in the morning, we would not believe such a thing happened. The road was dry and clean!

Gladiators

Relief work from Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Mushrooms in the Wild

Found on a trail in Southford Falls, CT during last fall

Geese in sparkling waters

Taken at Lake Tahoe in the middle of a summer day.

Windmills

Sight of rows of windmills as seen from the car window.

Blue waters

Stick by my side while I pass through these blue waters... 

Soon things will brighten and the sun will shine...

Days will come when I will be fine...

Artificial or real?

We saw these near one of the shopping complex parking lots in San Leandro. 

They seem to grow from the soil.. So they may be real..

But I can't seem to believe my eyes.. What do you think? Are these real? :)

Knotty Tidbits: 14

Title: Half Moon Bay

Sound of waves at a distance...

Warm sand under the bare feet...

Sun saving us from the chilly winds...

With a favorite novel in hand and my beloved by my side...

What more could I ask for? :)

It was a hazy and windy day at the beach. 

Was I able to play in the water at the beach? No. 

But did I miss it? Not at all! :)

Brock Street

On the way to office, I see this covered bridge and tell myself that I will ask V to take me here. I memorize the name of the street: "Brock St." I save the name in my cell phone and tell myself again and again that we need to visit the bridge when V is in town.

V is in town; but we never get to go out. I am busy with work and he is busy with work. The day V has to leave, he sneaks me out to where? To Brock Street... Yipeee! :)

We pass the covered bridge. 

It passes over the twin brooks. Now comes the surprise. 

There is a whole park out there... 

Covered with snow... 

with a half-frozen lake... 

 

Oh! What an experience! 

"Wish we had more time," I sigh.

Snowy Beach

My first experience with snowy beach... 

 Lucky to have V with me to share the moment! :)

Mini Grand Central!

The Union Station at New Haven looks a little like Grand Central from the inside. May be it is not as grand as the Grand Central in New York City. But it is a mini-Grand Central with it quaint ticket counters, the warm yellow lighting and the seating arrangements. I wish V was with me to share the moment.

It was beautifully decked up for the Christmas

What I liked the best was the board that displayed the train information. Every time there was a change in schedule, the letters in the rows moved rapidly and finally showed the train name and its new arrival/departure time. It reminded of the movie: Terminal.

I did not visit this place just for sight-seeing; I had a train to board. My first experience in the Amtrak - Acela Express! Wow! Loved the experience. The interior of the train looked like the business class section of a flight. We even have free wifi on board. There is more than enough legroom and lot of overhead space to store our luggage.

I wish I had traveled during the day time; I would have surely enjoyed the landscape outside the window. May be some other time! :)

Covered Bridge at Southford Falls

It was a chance visit to this covered bridge. We were on the way to another state park when we passed this bridge and we had to stop by! This is the first covered bridge we visited.

Here is a closer look.

What did it look like from the inside?

What about the view of the falls from the bridge?

How long is the bridge?

What was under the bridge?

What is the name of the bridge and when was it built?

View of the falls from through the windows of the bridge