San Diego Restaurant Week, January 15-20, 2012
The first San Diego Restaurant Week of 2012 (there will be another one in late Summer) is coming up quickly: January 15-20, 2012.
Restaurant Week features around 180 restaurants throughout San Diego with fixed price menus. Depending on the restaurants, lunch menus are $10, $15, or $20, and dinner menus are $20, $30, or $40.
Click on San Diego Restaurant Week to see which restaurants are participating, and if your favorite restaurant is not, contact their management and ask them to join the fun!
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San Diego Mission Valley Condos For Sale
River Colony
Enjoy the hassle-free condominium lifestyle from the central location of Mission Valley!
Everything that beautiful San Diego has to offer is right at the doorstep of your condominium at River Colony.
River Colony is a gated community of 300 units in zip code 92108 in the central section of Mission Valley. River Colony was built in 1992, planned as condominiums but built as apartments and converted to condominiums around 2004. There has always been a lot of real estate action in River Colony following the conversion as you can see from the tables below. Bedroom/bathroom floor plans include 1/1 and 2/2, and range in size from 712 to 1,025 square feet.
Amenities at River Colony include swimming pool, spa, outdoor grills and picnic areas, in-unit laundry.
HOA fees range from $488 to $575 per month and include common area maintenance, exterior building and roof maintenance, landscaping, water (including hot water), sewer, trash pickup, termite prevention, and limited insurance.
River Colony is easily accessible to Qualcomm Stadium, the University of San Diego, San Diego State University, Fashion Valley Mall, several San Diego Trolley stations, SeaWorld, Mission Bay, Old Town, and downtown San Diego.
Walkers, joggers, and bikers will enjoy the concrete paths along the San Diego River from Qualcomm Stadium on the east end of Mission Valley all the way to Mission Bay, Ocean Beach, and Mission Beach on the west end, a distance of about seven miles.
A check with the FHA indicates that River Colony is FHA approved; approval expires August 26, 2013. River Colony is VA approved without any conditions.
River Colony is managed by Merit Management. Contact them at 800-428-5588.
As of January 7, 2012, there were seven units for sale in River Colony and three units with pending sales:
Twenty-six units in River Colony sold in 2011:
Following are the twenty most recent sales in River Colony prior to 2011:
If you would like to be informed of any units in River Colony that come on the market, or if you'd like to visit any unit in the other 38 condominium communities in Mission Valley, or a property anywhere in San Diego County, please contact me.
River Colony is #35 on the Mission Valley map below. For information on the other communities in Mission Valley, click on the map to go to my web site and then click on the same map there. You can also call me at 619-729-5701 or email me at JimFrimmer@Century21Award.com.
Information in this post is deemed accurate and reliable but not guaranteed.
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My new and improved Blue Boy
Since I learned so much about using (and abusing) pictures in Corel Draw, Word, Corel Photo-Paint, and Corel PaintShop Pro during the 2011 December blogging challenge, I was recently asked if I wanted to become a more significant part of Russel Ray Photos along with Russel Ray, Eric Cooper, and Zoey the Cool Cat.
Hesitance....
When I visited Roy Kelley's blog yesterday evening, he had a post on Winterthur. That reminded me that I had a picture of the Blue Boy from the Huntington Library, Musem & Gardens in San Marino, California, east of Los Angeles.
The picture is huge, and I'm small, and flash photography is not allowed in the painting room, so my picture was washed out and dull, and you could tell that I was looking up at it:
I took that picture with a telephoto lens from as far back as the camera would let me so that the picture wasn't so distorted.
I knew there was a way to correct the distortion but didn't know where to begin, mainly because I didn't know what that type of distortion was called. While Eric was over here last night, I asked him about it, and it's called "perspective distortion." It's real easy to correct using Corel PaintShop Pro X4, so easy that after Eric showed me, I waited until he left and then tried it on my picture.
I should say that ever since I saw this painting when I was young — I used to do water colors and oil paintings, which my mom's home is full of — I've loved it, and I always wanted to see it in person. The picture above does not do it justice. However....
When I finished last night, I had a picture that does do it justice:
That's what it looks like to the human eye, which can adjust for low lighting, types of lighting, etc.
I'm so proud of myself. Russel Ray Photos? Sure, why not?
Roy likes to leave beautiful pictures with all his comments, so I was going to leave him a beautiful picture of Blue Boy this morning. When I went by his blog, he had another blog post about Winterthur (you really have to stop by and look at his beautiful pictures of the museum collection) and invited us to leave our favorite museum picture, so, of course, I left Blue Boy.
This is another example of what Eric likes to say: "What comes out of the camera is just the basics to start with." The camera cannot reproduce what the eye sees, but with something like Corel Paintshop Pro X4, you can make the picture real close to what your eye saw, or what you want other eyes to see.
By the way, you can catch Eric and his great photography tips and tricks over at our Russel Ray Photos WordPress blog. He did his first post yesterday evening, and I'm sure he'll have more today since I know what he and Russel were doing yesterday afternoon.
I'll be blogging soon at WordPress, too, possibly as early as tonight or tomorrow. I'll let everyone know when I have it set up.
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San Diego Mission Valley Condos For Sale
Union Square
Enjoy the hassle-free condominium lifestyle from the central location of Mission Valley!
Everything that beautiful San Diego has to offer is right at the doorstep of your condominium at Union Square.
Union Square was built from 1996 to 1998. It is a gated community of about 130 units in zip codes 92108 in the central section of Mission Valley. Bedroom/bathroom floor plans include 2/2, 2/3, and 3/3, and range in size from 950 to 1,345 square feet.
Amenities at Union Square include swimming pool, spa, outdoor grills and picnic areas, in-unit laundry, and individual garages.
HOA fees are about $215 per month and include common area maintenance, exterior building and roof maintenance, landscaping, and limited insurance.
Union Square is easily accessible to Qualcomm Stadium, the University of San Diego, San Diego State University, Fashion Valley Mall, several San Diego Trolley stations, SeaWorld, Mission Bay, Old Town, and downtown San Diego.
Walkers, joggers, and bikers will enjoy the concrete paths along the San Diego River from Qualcomm Stadium on the east end of Mission Valley all the way to Mission Bay, Ocean Beach, and Mission Beach on the west end, a distance of about seven miles.
A check with the FHA indicates that Union Square's FHA approval expired August 31, 2011. No word yet on whether approval was renewed. It us HUD accepted for VA.
Union Square is managed by Packard Management. Contact them at 858-277-4305.
As of January 6, 2012, there were no units for sale in Union Square and one unit with a pending sale:
Four units in Union Square sold in 2011, all of them above the listing price:
Following are the twenty most recent sales in Union Square prior to 2011:
If you would like to be informed of any units in Union Square that come on the market, or if you'd like to visit any unit in the other 38 condominium communities in Mission Valley, or a property anywhere in San Diego County, please contact me.
Union Square is #34 on the Mission Valley map below. For information on the other communities in Mission Valley, click on the map to go to my web site and then click on the same map there. Also feel free to call me at 619-729-5701 or email me at JimFrimmer@Century21Award.com.
Information in this post is deemed accurate and reliable but not guaranteed.
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San Diego Mission Valley Condos For Sale
Park Villas South
Enjoy the hassle-free condominium lifestyle from the central location of Mission Valley!
Everything that beautiful San Diego has to offer is right at the doorstep of your condominium at Park Villas South.
Park Villas South was built from 1973 to 1975. It is a gated community of 344 units in zip code 92108 in the central section of Mission Valley.
Units range in size from 506 to 1,020 square feet, and bedroom/bathroom floor plans include 0/1, 1/1, and 2/2. The 0/1 studios make great overnight homes for pilots, flight attendants, and other people, such as consultants, who have to travel a lot or have regular layovers in San Diego.
Amenities at Park Villas South include swimming pool, spa, outdoor grills and picnic areas, clubhouse, and community laundry. This is a wonderful place to live, and since these make excellent starter homes, there is usually quite a lot of real estate action in Park Villas South.
HOA fees range from about $270 to $330 per month and include common area maintenance, exterior building and roof maintenance, landscaping, water (including hot water), sewer, trash pickup, and limited insurance. Some units claim that cable/TV service is included in the HOA fees.
Park Villas South is easily accessible to Qualcomm Stadium, the University of San Diego, San Diego State University, Fashion Valley Mall, several San Diego Trolley stations, SeaWorld, Mission Bay, Old Town, and downtown San Diego.
Walkers, joggers, and bikers will enjoy the concrete paths along the San Diego River from Qualcomm Stadium on the east end of Mission Valley all the way to Mission Bay, Ocean Beach, and Mission Beach on the west end, a distance of about seven miles.
Park Villas South is managed by Pernicano Realty. Contact them at 619-543-9400.
A check with the FHA indicates that Park Villas South is not FHA approved. It is not VA approved either.
As of January 5, 2012, there were four units for sale in Park Villas South, and one unit with a pending sale:
Nine units in Park Villas South sold in 2011:
Following are the twenty most recent sales in Park Villas South prior to 2011:
If you would like to be informed of any units in Park Villas South that come on the market, or if you'd like to visit any unit in the other 38 condominium communities in Mission Valley, or a property anywhere in San Diego County, please contact me.
Park Villas South is #33 on the Mission Valley map below. For information on the other communities in Mission Valley, click on the map to go to my web site and then click on the same map there. You can also call me at 619-729-5701 or email me at JimFrimmer@Century21Award.com.
Information in this post is deemed accurate and reliable but not guaranteed.
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