This morning, we decided to travel with our Nikon D50 and its new ‘Christmas’ 12-24mm lens, rather than the Lumix, our new, ‘normal’ commuter camera, for some reason, and it was the Nikon combo that snapped this pic.

Lately we’ve been walking from San Jose Diridon station to Adobe on the path that goes straight from Diridon station’s front door to the nearby VTA station and then briefly joins San Fernando Street before entering McEnery Park for the short stroll to Adobe’s office complex.

Those are 2 of Adobe’s 3 towers in the distance, beyond the path and VTA platform. This is nearly the whole distance I have to walk, it takes about 15 minutes at a leisurely pace, so you can see how public-transport-friendly Adobe is.

I realize that when I stopped driving a 12-14 MPG V8 Land Rover in favor of a 30MPG 4-cylinder plus electric motor Ford Escape I was doing our future descendants a favor. But I’m being even kinder to them as my poor Ford (I really am quite fond of the car, if people can be fond of cars) languishes in our driveway (it does do a lot of the weekend chores). I think acts like using public transport, repeated by many Americans faithful to their Republic, will do far more than a ‘troop surge’ to improve world affairs….

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