Category: California State Parks

MM2/11 Whaler’s Cabin

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Over the week-end I joined my friend Hai who was hosting a Meet-Up Photography trip to Point Lobos State Park in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.  A lot of people canceled at the last-minute so there were only 5 of us; which was a lot of fun, and made it easy for everyone to stay together. The weather wasn’t perfect, but there wasn’t a lot to complain about either. We had an overcast sky most the day with occasional bits of blue peeking out of the fog, and clouds, there was no wind, and the ambient temperature was perfect for hiking.

For Leanne Cole’s weekly Monochrome Madness2 this week I’m sharing an image I made of Whaler’s Cabin.

MM2-11 Whaler's Cabin Point Lobos State Park

It was built over 160 years ago by Chinese Fisherman. It overlooks Carmel Bay, and Whaler’s Cove.

My image shows the side of the cabin with a huge Monterey Cypress tree growing up against the wall of the cabin. I really liked how the branches frame the little window.   The upper branch framing the window looks as if it split, but it’s still alive! The Monterey Cypress trees, and the Cypress grove here in the park is one of two groves, and they are the only two that remain on Earth. The other grove is across Carmel Bay at Cypress Point.

Today the cabin houses the Whaler’s Museum which houses some Whaling Tools, and artifacts.  I made the image below of some of the things inside the Museum back in May 2010. Can you imagine how heavy that scuba diving suit must be?

Whaler's Cabin Museum

Outside the cabin there are whale bones, and the huge “try pots” that were used to boil the Whale blubber to render oil.

The Cabin is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and you can read more about its history here.

Nikon Df| AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm| Tripod| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film|  developed in: CS6, Silver Efex Pro 2, and Perfect Black and White

More to come…

P52 46/52 Forging on…

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Copyright © 2011-2014 Deborah M. Zajac. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Monday was a Terrible, Horrible,No Good, Very Bad day, and I wanted He-Man and myself to be someplace sunny and warm with a nice drink and great view and, not the Emergency Room we were in.

I was concerned about my kitchen pipes they were running really slow and didn’t smell so good no matter how much I put stuff down the drain to deodorize them, so I cleaned out the closet to get to the trap-door, so He-Man could get under the house to inspect the pipes. He cleared up his schedule to have time to get under there and while poking around discovered several sections of the kitchen pipes, and our shower pipes were rotting out. (Our house is over 50 yrs old now.) He touched the shower drain pipe and it crumbled and started leaking. I was above him over the shower and heard his reaction ^^%$#! He came up and called a Plumber. The soonest we could anyone over would be Weds. Ok, we can deal with that we have 2 full bathrooms.

He-Man was going to take a shower in the hall bath and soon discovered that was plugged up. The water wasn’t draining at all. He snaked it out, and still the water wouldn’t drain. <sigh> No showers, and no plumber til Weds! Sponge baths will have to do.

Fast forward to just past 10PM He-Man thought, ” Ah, I can do a quick work-out and get a shower at the gym!” On his way to the gym He-Man’s toe caught on something in the grass; and he fell.  I heard him leave, then the car alarm was beeping blaring and I couldn’t figure out why He-Man wasn’t shutting it off. Shaking my head I went to the front door to find out what was happening and found him laying in the grass! He said he thought he broke his knee. He wasn’t able to stand up. He rolled to a sitting position and I saw straight-away his knee wasn’t right. I knew I had to take him to ER.

Using my rolling office chair we got him in my car, and off we went to the Emergency Room.

Hours, X-Rays, and an Ultra-sound later the Doctors told us the grim news. He’d ruptured his Patella Tendon. The Doctor fixed him up with a knee immobilizer and set him up with an appointment to see the Specialist the next morning. The Specialist ordered surgery, and scheduled for it Wednesday morning.

Oh, but the Plumber is coming on Weds! We had to reschedule that to Friday.

We hardly slept at all since Monday, but got a few hours sleep and got up and ready to get to the hospital for surgery Weds. morning. When we arrived they pushed out the surgery until 1PM because the surgeon had an emergency surgery come up. So we went back home and tried to nap.

We got back to the hospital and the surgery was on time. It went very well, and it was out-patient so He-Man got to come home.

He’s been resting comfortably and has good pain meds. We’re even catching up on sleep now, and the Plumber was out yesterday and fixed the pipes so we have both bathroom showers and my kitchen sinks draining better than they have in months.

He-Man has a L O N G road of recovery and physical therapy ahead of him but I believe “Set backs are the stepping stones to come backs!” We will forge on!

Forging On

Image from my archives: 2011 Columbia State Park, CA, Nikon D300s| Nikkor 17-35mm| SB600 speedlight| Hand-held

Since I haven’t taken any images of anything but He-Man’s knee this week I thought I’d dig through my archives for something to work on for my weekly Project 52 image. This one of the Blacksmith in front of the Forge seemed to fit nicely with my feelings this week.

More to come…