san jose

Aug 21, 2005

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Originally uploaded by judytuna. Today the five of us tuans went to Lick Observatory, which is east of San Jose, 26 miles up to the top of Mount Hamilton. Tomorrow we are going to Yosemite for a day trip. I will get five hours of sleep tonight.

Lick Observatory homepage: http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/ Lick Observatory wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_Observatory

Comments (5)

poetic27license August 21, 2005 at 8:45 AM

it is telling you to lick it.

mbarrien August 21, 2005 at 1:12 PM

No no.... it's telling the University of California to lick it.

judytuna August 22, 2005 at 8:45 AM

i wish i thought to take a picture of me licking it. alas. i guess my mom would've told me not to, anyway.

afternoonjazz August 22, 2005 at 8:10 AM

wow. and i mean wow. what a lovely name!

judytuna August 22, 2005 at 8:56 AM

and how!

James Lick was a total crazy. He almost built a pyramid in the middle of SF for himself. He was convinced to build the world's biggest refractor telescope (at the time) instead. Fortunately. And then he demanded that his body be interred at the base of the telescope. So it is.