Snaps Around Old Ranch February 15th 2008
The grounds are kept immaculate and when one adds snow in the Los Angeles mountains as a backdrop and a few selected Mallards, wow!
The mountains are over 50 miles away!
The snow is viewable for moths on end
Photo's From November 7th 2008
Clubhouse form the 18th hole
Please enjoy our snapshots around Old Ranch taken by members over the past year.
November 2008
The dining room just before dinner
Patio and Pro Shop
Patio at sunset where members spend evenings sharing
Members and the ducks enjoying Mount Baldy 65 miles away!
Did you know? Mount San Antonio, known locally as Old Baldy or Mount Baldy, is the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, and the highest point in Los Angeles County, California. Mount Baldy's sometimes snow-capped peaks are visible on clear days, and dominate the view of the Los Angeles and Seal Beach skylines. Mount San Antonio has two summits. The eastern summit is higher at an elevation of 10,064 feet while the west is at 9,988 feet. Nearby is San Antonio Creek, the location of San Antonio Falls.
Did you know? Between 1922 and 1927, American physicist Albert Michelson performed a number of experiments involving bouncing a beam of light onto a reflector at Lookout Mountain, a prominent bump on the south ridge of the mountain 3km SW of the peak, from the observatory at Mount Wilson some 22 miles distant. The exact distance was very accurately surveyed and using the measurements the speed of light was calculated to be 299,796±4 km/s
Sunset over Los Angeles as seen form Seal Beach
It will soon be dark
Did you know? Sunset is the daily disappearance of the sun below the horizon as a
result of the Earth's rotation. The atmospheric conditions created by
the setting of the sun are also commonly referred to as "a sunset".
These conditions often appear before and after the precise moment the
sun disappears below the horizon, and as a result the term "sunset" in
common usage has a substantially looser meaning than in scientific and
technical applications.
Did you know? In astronomy the time of sunset is
defined as the moment the trailing edge of the sun's disk disappears
below the horizon in the west. Due to refraction of light in the
atmosphere, the ray path of the setting sun is highly distorted near the
horizon making the apparent astronomical sunset occur when the sun’s
disk is already about one diameter below the horizon. Sunset should not
be confused with dusk, which is the moment at which darkness falls, when
the sun is about eighteen degrees below the horizon. The period between
the astronomical sunset and dusk is called twilight.
Time for a toddy for the body!
The moon rises over Old Ranch
"Can't we squeeze in just one more hole???"