A Change in the Weather

Thursday, Fred and I took a bike ride around Mission Bay, saw some people enjoying the day before the rain arrived in the evening.

Friday night we went downtown to see the silent movie Phantom of the Opera, 1925/1929 version, at the San Diego Symphony Hall, near the Gaslamp district. We were just parking the car when we heard this huge crash. Two cars had met in the intersection maybe 50 feet away. Don't know which one ran the red light, but no one was hurt seriously. The three people are all shown below. The gentleman in white was in a BMW SUV, pretty badly damaged in the front. His airbag deployed, and, after the intial impact, he rolled into a parked BMW sedan which bumped the car in front, for a total of 4 cars involved. The young Marine in black later complained of back pain and went off in an ambulance. His wife, right side with back to us, said she was OK. She had to exit their car on the driver's side.

We finally went on to dinner and the movie, both of which were uneventful but very pleasant. The 1921 organ is not fully restored, so the organist used it sparingly but effectively. The symphony hall was an old Fox theatre embedded in a modern building. I'm going to have to do more research on it.

No beautiful sunrise this morning. Here's the view from our window this morning. That's Dog Beach across the channel... Fred ran this morning and then this afternoon we're going to go visit our friend Dean for dinner, stopping for a little birding on the way.

As I post this, it's brighter and more blue sky is visible. Rain predicted, off and on, through Monday.