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Pensions, Kites and Ghosts [PhotoTravel]

Huge congratulations to my good friend and former Hursley colleague Dave Mitchell on being elected a director of the IBM UK Pension Fund - capable hands under the control of a wise mind are something every organisation needs. Some of you may be aware of the ongoing concerns of a number of current and future IBM pensioners over the management of the funds in the UK and having Dave on the Board is something many had hoped for.

Dave also wrote to tell me about his new hobby taking aerial photographs from kites (KAP). One of the links he sent, to Cris Benton's web site, reminded me of one of my (few) aerial photographs, taken landing at SFO last December and shown to the left. This picture shows the ghost-town of Drawbridge, located in the far south end of San Francisco Bay near San Jose. An opportunistic den of iniquity, it was left largely untouched by the law at the turn of the century by being on an island in the bay on the boundary of two counties. Now, a century on, it is sinking slowly into the mud. The amazing colours come from the algae growing in the water of salt evaporation ponds.

posted at 5:28 AM (UK) | |