many of you have seen the photos I've taken from inside the bean and wondered what it looked like from the outside, well, here it is

Cloud Gate -- referred to by locals as "The Bean", for obvious reasons -- is a public sculpture by talented British artist Anish Kapoor. Cloud Gate weighs in at over 110-tons, and is 66 feet long and 33 feet high. "The Bean" was created using a huge number of individual stainless steel plates -- Cloud Gate's seamless surface is the result of thousands of hours of polishing.

 

 

sometimes you just get a "notice" and last night I woke up at 2:30am and looked out the window to see the moon setting . . . . with some clouds and a full sky of stars

 

 

nah, this is Cerro San Luis on a crisp late December morning taken from the Irish Hills

 

 

there was a 6.9 foot high tide yesterday morning, very rare to catch Morro Bay this full and so clear