Southern California, views from David's camera
The pictures on this page were all taken during the 1970s, while I was a graduate student at the University of California San Diego.
Teddy-bear cholla.
Ocotillo in bloom, at left
(pink flowers are barely visible at the ends of the stems).
Joshua trees.
Torrey Pines State Park.
LaJolla Cove.
Me, with Peterson bird guide and binoculars at Los Peñasquitos Lagoon.
We lived not far from the coast. Here is Prof. Ted Bullock
introducing students to tide-pool creatures near Scripps Pier.
Me holding an octopus, during Prof. Bullock's tide-pool tutorial.
Amidst the stony chaparral near the UCSD campus I sketched
wildflowers, watched Eleodes beetles stalking across the landscape,
discovered trapdoor spider tunnels under the shrubs, and coaxed
ostracods and tardigrades from dessicated moss. In far blue haze
is Black Mountain, a prominent hill also visible in the image below.
(By now the foreground landscape has been almost
entirely obliterated by development.)
Interstate 805, passing east of the UCSD campus.In both this and the image above, Mount Palomar extends across
the horizon in the very faint distance, about 65 miles away. There
a friend and I once camped after bicyclng from coastal chaparral to
evergreen forest on the mountaintop.
Somewhere along the California coast, much farther north.
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Last updated: 26 February 2025 / dgk
