Author Topic: An afternoon in the life of a Southern California Pagoda (Read 20185 times)

66andBlue · « **on:** April 09, 2011, 04:55:28 »

At lunch time I was listening to Debussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" on the radio when - for whatever reasons - I realized that I needed to wake up my car and take it around for a leasurely afternoon ride around the neighborhood. Here are some impressions.

knockmacool · « **Reply #1 on:** April 09, 2011, 08:29:39 »

Nice neighborhood, great pictures, groovy car!

Louis · « **Reply #2 on:** April 09, 2011, 10:33:29 »

Absolutely beautiful scenery !! Thanks for sharing ....

71Beige280SL · « **Reply #3 on:** April 09, 2011, 12:45:51 »

Stunning!

J. Huber · « **Reply #4 on:** April 09, 2011, 13:11:34 »

Alfred, your car looks really good. As does the Southern California backdrop. Any for sale signs in the neighborhood?

dtuttle123 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 09, 2011, 14:48:26 »

Love the surfing one! So Southern California!

Peter van Es · « **Reply #6 on:** April 09, 2011, 15:46:17 »

Lovely!

66andBlue · « **Reply #7 on:** April 10, 2011, 03:54:09 »

Thanks, I do appreciate all the replies.
When I wrote 'neighborhood' I meant a half-circle with a 25 mile radius. For a full circle I'd have to convert the car into an amphibious vehicle.

And yes, James, plenty of homes available down here.
Here are four more shots. It was an amazing day, followed at night by snow in the mountains down to 3000 feet (~900m) elevation.

bootes · « **Reply #8 on:** April 10, 2011, 04:24:55 »

Wow! Outstanding pics. That blue is awesome!

ctm14 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 10, 2011, 05:43:28 »

Hi Alfred,

Very nice photos, the car looks beautiful against the backdrop. These were taken on Friday weren't they? It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Enjoy retirement, I spent the whole day on the 5 back and forth from San Diego to LA.

Hope you are well

Chris

49er · « **Reply #10 on:** April 10, 2011, 22:46:50 »

Beautiful pictures of your beautiful car! Pretty beautiful part of our state too

John

Rolland · « **Reply #11 on:** April 11, 2011, 04:20:07 »

Okay, I'm not sure what I'm most jealous of......driving your Pagoda (mine is about 2 months away from coming back home), Beautiful back drops to take pics of your Pagoda, or, all the sunshine (I'm in Oregon where we just finished the wettest March on record and now are in "April Showers."

Great pics, Thanks for sharing!

Rolland

Tom Colitt · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2011, 23:49:33 »

I LOVE the surfing shot Alfred :-)

Peter h · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2011, 05:56:24 »

Hallo

thanks for this dream pictures.
May by our next vacation gos to South California. We stay every year in Florida Cape Coral for 3 weeks, must talk with my wive about California.

Peter

mcreasy · « **Reply #14 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:39:00 »

I just took a picture of another beautiful area in Southern California in the mountains above L.A on a clear day!! Great Day! I was down at the big car show in Del Mar a couple of weeks ago, I thought I might see you there 66and blue ,, maybe I 'll see you driving around the 5 sometime!

mcreasy · « **Reply #15 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:42:21 »

I just took a picture of another beautiful area in Southern California in the mountains above L.A on a clear day!! Great Day! I was down at the big car show in Del Mar a couple of weeks ago, I thought I might see you there 66and blue ,, maybe I 'll see you driving around the 5 sometime!

Drewtee · « **Reply #16 on:** May 04, 2011, 06:19:16 »

Please tell me i didn't miss a car show in Corona Del Mar? I was in Laguna for April and went to 'Cars and Coffee' in Irvine one saturday, took some pics of a couple of Pagodas. Members here? How lucky you SoCal members are to have a car show every Saturday of this quality- Some great cars there.

pablo_o2 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 05, 2011, 18:55:03 »

Alfred did you use any filters or manipulate them to get those contrasting colors? Nice effect!

66andBlue · « **Reply #18 on:** May 05, 2011, 23:31:15 »

Hello Paul,
the camera I used is a Canon G3 PowerShot and I had set "color effect" to "vivid" which enhances them a bit more. I imported the photos into iPhoto, cropped them and then exported them again in the desired size for posting. No external filters were used, but it was really a remarkable day with no smog and even very little haze over the Pacific.
Now we are going into "May gray" and "June gloom" when the weather turns foggy and overcast along the coast almost every day. I'll try to get a few pix demonstrating this also.

dseretakis · « **Reply #19 on:** May 06, 2011, 00:00:02 »

That's a very pretty blue!

66andBlue · « **Reply #20 on:** February 22, 2013, 20:11:29 »

It was a not only a nice day yesterday for a repeat drive through the country but a special one!

kampala · « **Reply #21 on:** February 22, 2013, 20:40:06 »

Brilliant!

I will have to remember to take these shots as mine is about 1000 miles away from its first 100K.

Flyair · « **Reply #22 on:** February 22, 2013, 20:57:24 »

Alfred,
I am sure that even the day the car was bought it already had some milage on the counter. So now with plenty of zeros on the counter your Pagoda is starting her second life: Long life to Pagoda (and Alfred

)!!!

Benz Dr. · « **Reply #23 on:** February 23, 2013, 00:02:57 »

Go away.........

It snowed here, then it rained, then it turned windy, then it snowed again......

Peter h · « **Reply #24 on:** February 24, 2013, 14:15:15 »

Hello Alfred and John

it snowed also at the mosel river. Salt and no Pagoda driving. Can't wait for the spring.
Peter

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Author Topic: An afternoon in the life of a Southern California Pagoda (Read 20185 times)

knockmacool

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