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Uvas Reservoir

Uvas Reservoir nearly empty

This photo was taken from “inside” the Uvas Reservoir just before last week’s rain. many things are interesting about this and about the time spent standing “in” there, thinking. One neat thing about this was this tree stump. The dam was built in 1957 and this tree has presumably been submerged ever since. Or, at least, most of the time ever since. Maybe it was exposed in other droughts? Certainly it was submerged every time I had happened to ever visit the reservoir here in the Santa Clara County Park. Either way, this tree was once a tree along Uvas Creek before there was a reservoir about it. This tree has been sitting under water for most of 64 years, brushing up against fish and snails and water molecules for decades.

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Sunflowers

Sunflower
Sunflower

The sunflower stocks have since dried and are now removed from the garden bed, breaking down in the mulch pile. The seeds have all gone to feed the local squirrel. That was not originally the plan, though it worked out just fine that way. Looking back over these photos from June before the seeds developed.

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Sanctuary Sculpture

Sanctuary sculpture at SCVMC

“Sanctuary” is a 65 foot tall sculpture by artist Bruce Beasley (http://brucebeasley.com/) located at the entrance of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. It is huge. You get to walk under it by a path and besides looking for different ways that the giant rings play as I walked through I kept getting this ideas of motion imposed on my mind with flashes of the time/space traveling machine from the movie “Contact.”

Sanctuary sculpture at SCVMC
Sanctuary sculpture at SCVMC

Not captured in these photos which look east towards the street entrance to the hospital are the buildings that form a “U” around the sculpture and its park like settings around the north, west, and south sides of the art. These are hospital rooms that look out onto this beautiful scene called “Sanctuary.”