"House of Hospitality" at Balboa Park, from the Botanical Building.
Spreckels Organ Pavilion at Balboa Park. The woman and child in the foreground are great niece-in-law Amber and great great niece Lily.
St George-san and the Dragon in a building in the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park.
Koi in the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park.
One of the many plants in the Botanical Building at Balboa Park.
Party poopers at the Botanical Building in Balboa Park.
Orchid in the Botanical Building at Balboa Park.
Waterlilies in the pond in front of the Botanical Building at Balboa Park.
There was a DaVinci exhibit at the Air and Space Museum at Balboa Park. This is his bicycle.
Fokker Triplane, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park. They also had a display of a number of the Red Baron's medals.
Indian Motorcycle at the Air and Space Museum at Balboa Park.
Ford TriMotor and a period gas pump, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
Marston mat at the Air and Space Museum's WWII exhibit. There used to be a vast area of NAS LosAl covered with this stuff. I've even seen it used to make walkways in refineries.
Motorized bike in the WWII exhibit, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
A really craptastic picture of a Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
SBD Dauntless, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
WWII-era Rolls Royce aircraft engine, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
Mercury spacecraft, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
Gemini Spacecraft, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
Somewhat blurry shot of the plaque showing the locations of the Apollo command modules. Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
Apollo 9 Command Module "Gumdrop" at the Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park. The good-lookin' catcher (must be a catcher, since his hat is on backward) in the orange hat is my great nephew Brandon.
More Gumdrop and Brandon, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
Gumdrop's Hatch, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
What's left of Gumdrop's heatshield, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
The other side of Gumdrop, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
A-4 Skyhawk, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
The other side of the Skyhawk, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
MiG-17, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park. The opposite side of the rotunda from the TriMotor.
The plaque in the floor between the MiG-17 and the F-4 Phantom in the next picture (you can see the nose in the shot of the MiG-17), Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
F-4 Phantom II, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
Blue Angel 1, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
Blue Angel 1, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park. For the first time in my life I was close enough to *touch* a Blue Angels jet. And hell, yes, I touched it!!
Challenger Memorial, Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park.
