Jelly Belly, no not me.....

Well if you live in Northern California, then you probably know about the Jelly Belly factory. This place was made famous by President Reagan and was found all over the white house in those days.

We took a trip the the factory and learned all about how they make jelly belly's. They make much more but you cannot see those parts of the facility. If you get a chance to go, its a fun time and lots of candy to choose from.

Can you guess what they do with the jelly belly's that are to small, to large or other mistakes? Well they sell them in the store as Belly Flops. Belly Flops sell for a huge reduction in price. Yeepy!

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Wishing I could return

You know it gets that time of year when you wish you could return to some winter holiday location you went to before. For my its either Hawaii or Florida. With Florida its great in May and October. With Hawaii its good almost all the time, maybe not September.

While visiting the sites at the north west side of Kauai, we found a nice restaurant to have lunch. Much to our surprise we found a plantation style resort out back. It is beautiful with small cottages and lots of green grass to enjoy your time at. The shot was taken looking back at the resort from the beach. I'll have to thing about posting that beach shot. Are you interested? Let me know.

above 7000 feet

When you are at high altitudes, the sky becomes more blue. This is simply because there is less atmosphere (and therefore less partials) in the way. This shot was taken at Vikings home at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe. No not a shot of the island which everyone gets, but a shot of the rock formation just at the top of the road. By pointing your camera up, you are shooting into space. Ok, well not that dramatic. But you can get those dark blue skies without a polarized filter.

I took this shot in the second week of 2009 and usually this section of Lake Tahoe is not accessible because of snow. Since there has not been much snow (the jet stream is still high over the pacific north west), we were able to drive there. But just a few weeks later, it has snowed in again. What luck.