Morning walks with Seiko

Today's walk features the watch of Mrs. C -- it's part of a pair (mine's broken) and since I collected them, I consider her watches part of my collection. She just beats them up a bit ... :-( We headed east today along the river, up above the old Mission (or Padre) Dam to Kumeyaay Lake. We got there before the sun came up over the horizon. It was mighty cold by our standards. The lake was still and littered with ducks. This is looking downriver, towards the west. We crossed at the ford and got partially around to the other lobe of the lake. This is looking northeast, towards the 3 graceful radio spires. A closer look. This is looking directly north, at another segment of the lake. Sun rise was supposed to happen at 6:48. It didn't. We walked around the north side of the lake towards the west end. It was nicer at this end; the light is increasing as we circled the water. A rather undignified way of getting one's breakfast. Not easy being a duck! Water leaving the lak...

  We weren't planning to walk on Christmas, but we went to church last night with a couple hundred others (outdoors and distanced) and have nothing on for this morning.   Everything is closed, our relatives and neignbors don't get up til 9am, and we are ready to go [Good habits are as hard to break as bad ones]. I grabbed the nearest Seiko, which will surprise you, I'm sure.  But hey, Seiko is big in digital as well as analog timepieces. This is a pristine pocket watch/alarm/dual time zone timepiece from 1985. It has a Seiko Ref number and a Caliber 74802 movement. I'm carrying it, and counting it.  BTW - there's on like it on eBay right now, for $150 in Sofia, Bulgaria. We went to a mythical place called Mount Nebo, a geographical feature and neighborhood in the San Diego suburb of La Mesa. Many decades ago the city decided to build staircases between the roads that wind up/down the hill. Rumor has it about 250 steps in total. We set out to investigate and if neces...