Sunset over southern california. There's a christmas tree with all red lights in the middle of the pic. It's easier to see if you click on the image to get the high resolution original.

View of sunset over the Los Angeles basin, with the ocean off in the distance.

Can barely see the Hollywood sign on the hill near the radio tower.

View from Griffith Observatory of Downtown Los Angeles on the left.

Kate nearing the end of her 2nd trimester. L.A. in the background.

We like to take lots of these kind of pics of ourselves.

"The Big Picture" underground at Griffith Observatory. They recently finished a 4.5 year $93 million remodel of the observatory. This room was all dirt prior to Jan 2, 2002. They lifted the entire observatory on hydraulic jacks and dug out this room, and poured the concrete support beams that make up the ceiling, in place, then set the original building back down.

Kate with Saturn and Uranus in the background.

All 8+1 (sorry Pluto) planets were to scale of eachother. Jupiter & Saturn are pictured here.

Earthling.

Beam me up.

Women are from NGC-2147?

Mars bars make for a good diet!

Seated here are two of the world's greatest geniuses.

The giant wall of space represents the portion of sky that would be covered by holding your finger a foot away from your eyes, as Albert Einstein is doing here.

Earth to Kate, do you read me?

Model of Earth that rotated.

Moon pies make for a good diet too!

Not pictured: cow.

From right to left: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Pluto got dropped off the edge of the picture.

The wall in the background is called "The Big Picture"

"The Big Picture" is made of 114 panels. This would be awesome to have at home!

From left to right: Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury. The statue of Einstein is down below Earth.

Neat tile floors.

The Foucault pendulum. The man in the picture on the wall is Griffith J. Griffith (yes, same first & last name) for whom the Observatory is named after. He was a rich man from the late 1800s that donated a bunch of land that became Griffith Park. He also once saw through a 12 inch telescope and said that the world would change if all of humanity could see through one, hence the observatory was made. Griffith Observatory has had more visitors than any other in the world.

The ceiling above the Foucault pendulum. If you look closely, there's a dark rectangle at the bottom of the sun that is the original condition of the painting before the observatory's restoration.

Pretty view of downtown L.A. at night with the planetarium portion of the observatory on the left.

One more arm's length pic of ourselves, out front of the observatory.