Cal High Graduation

Yesterday was California High School's graduation ceremony in San Ramon. Since Z was graduating, we participated in the late afternoon festivities - along with hundreds of other happy parents, siblings, relatives, and of course graduates...

The ceremony took place on the football field and the weather was perfect...

The calm before the storm...

Waiting patiently...

The dignitaries arrived...

The grads began marching in...

The girls sat on one side and the boys on the other...

A group of singers performed...

Students waited for their names to be called...

The Jazz band performed...

Speeches were given...

The audience was captivated (or at least pretended)...

Lots of water was consumed...

The diplomas were finally handed out one by one...

That's our Z, now a high school graduate...

Family members followed the names as they were read off...

Hats were a must...

Flowers were everywhere...

Even two daring boys streaked across the field in their undies...

Some people texted...

Some people read...

Some went for comfort over fashion...

And others waited patiently as the names were read alphabetically...

The last row of students...

Then when it was over, everyone spilled onto the field to take photos...

Congratuations to the class of 2010!

Go Grizzlies!

Hiking at Bishop Ranch

The weather here in San Ramon the past few days has been rather unseasonably hot and humid, but with the heat come some very interesting and unusual skies. One minute the sky will be filled with an assortment of clouds and the next minute they're all gone leaving behind nothing but heavenly blue skies. Yesterday around sunset I even saw quite a few lenticular clouds hovering over the foothills. (Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me). This morning was another one of those days, so I decided that instead of starting in on painting our office (yuck!), I'd better run up to the top of the ridge at Bishop Ranch Regional Open Space and get some photos while the skies were still putting on a display...The skies were quite photoworthy but so was the scenery alongside the trail...

The trail is quite steep in some sections, but you can get to the top of the ridge and back in about one hour unless you make frequent stops to admire the views, flowers, and birds!

Click HERE to see what this place is like in November or HERE to see shots from January.