The original Los Gatos Cemetery was in an area now covered with shops. Recently I was in the neighborhood for a haircut and thought I'd videotape the spot where the cemetery used to be. The scariest thing I encountered, though, was someone's panic-stricken response to missing a rare parking spot!
Going the wrong way on a one way street can be a very expensive mistake. Luckily for this driver, no tickets were to be had that day.
Outings in Los Gatos are often scenic and sometimes surprising.
Quito Road, which meanders alongside the winding San Tomas Aquino creek and separates Los Gatos from Saratoga, has loads of odd signs reminiscent of the one here, but this isn't a sign from Quito Road.
Tonight another fire, this one smaller but more local, darkened the skies over the western part of the Santa Clara Valley with smoke. At about 3pm, a grass fire broke out close to the onramp from San Tomas Expressway in Campbell onto Highway 17 southbound toward Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. By 4:30 or so, when I drove through, the plume of smoke rising was quite substantial. And by evening, the air was positively eerie in Los Gatos with strange tints coloring the sky and the landscape.
The late afternoon and early evening sky was a taupe color in places. Light coming in through the windows of our home was tinted a tungsten type of hue. This photo taken by Clair Handy from Bacigalupi Drive in Los Gatos (in Belwood of Los Gatos).
Another neighborhood view in Belwood.
View from the Handy Family backyard in Los Gatos - the wind made the smoke-filled areas very distinct from the cleaner sections of sky.
A (non-enhanced) view of nearby palm trees. The whole sky was just creepy looking.All of these pictures are unedited except for cropping, of course.
My sister, Barb, is visiting for a few days and she commented that the sky reminded of of when Mt St. Helen's blew in 1980. I was not around for that, but heard plenty about it from my many friends in Washington and Oregon. I don't think it was quite so dark, but it was certainly odd looking tonight.
This is a photo of the hills over Los Gatos at about 5:45pm this evening. The smoke is from the "Martin Fire" (so named for Martin Road, close to the fire), which began a little before 3pm near Bonny Doon.
Currently, it's burned through about 300 acres and caused 1400 people to evacuate, but because of the hot, dry weather and winds, it could easy grow to 1000 or 2000 acres.
Firefighters do not yet know what caused this fire.
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Mary Pope-Handy
Realtor, CRS, ABR, SRES, E-PRO
Luxor Real Estate Group
Mailing Address for Mary: PO Box 440 Los Gatos, CA 95031-0440
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