We live in Imperial Beach, just south of sunny San Diego.


Danny and I have been married for 25 years (July 10, 1982) and have 5 beautiful kids. (This was taken a month after we were married.)

Taken in March '05. Rear L-R Ashton, almost 17, Dashiell, just turned 15, Travis, 20 1/2.
Front L-R Savannah, just turned 11, Aidan, just turned 9, and me, don't ask!

Taken 2001, at Sea World. Savannah did NOT like the Pirates 4D show!
(Savannah, Ashton, Travis, Aidan and Dashiell.)



Danny took this picture from the Imperial Beach pier, facing south. That's Tijuana on the horizon.



Taken the same day, from here you can see the helicopters from Ream Field Naval Air Base.

All of the next photos were taken about 20 years ago and we just recently scanned them. Because of this they're not as sharp or crisp as many of the other photos on the site.

This is the view from the front door of the house where I was raised, and then Danny and I lived there until Dashiell was 3. To the left is the Silver Strand, going in to Coronado, and straight ahead is downtown San Diego. To the right, out of the picture, is Chula Vista. Along the front of the picture, if you look closely, are abandoned rail road tracks. There used to be train travel to Coronado, before the bridge opened.

Actually standing across the street now.

If you kept walking west toward the Silver Strand, you would come to this. The freeway is on the horizon. I've always loved the colors in this photo, and the little ripples. Mullet and other fish lived in this water, it's along the migration route of many birds species.

When I was little the water would be covered with birds. The sound of their squawking would wake me up in the morning. These photos were taken about 20 years ago, and you can see how few birds there are. Today we're doing well to see 15 or 20 at a time! It's all due to the pollution.

One of the jetties sticking out in to the bay. The Western Salt Company used this area, and harvested the salt for use in water softeners, etc. The ponds were divided by these jetties, and every once in a while a dredger would come along and open one jetty and close another, to move the water around. We used to be able to walk around the bay along these jetties, it was very peaceful and relaxing. Now they have it all fenced off so you can't get out there. Those boats are moored along the Silver Strand in an area called Emory Cove, but we all called it 'Hepatitis Bay'. All of the boats have been moved now, when Coronado built some new houses they wanted a nicer view and required the boat owners to relocate. The land to the right on the horizon is Point Loma.

Here's an old photo of the dredger. It looks like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, with all the birds perched on it.

This is the view to the right (east) of our house. You can see the Western Salt Company (to the far right), with its huge mound of salt.

This is the Western Salt Company. Danny took this photo from in front of our house, with a long zoom lens. (Which is why it's sort of blurry.)

I feel very blessed to have been raised where I was. We had two neighbors, one on each side, and then across the street a 180 degree view of San Diego Bay, with the migrating birds and other wild life to watch. How many people in San Diego had an experience like this?

Danny's a good photographer, if you'd like to see pictures he's taken of San Diego scenery (and more!), just click 'Pictures'.