Paola Renteria heads the ball for Watsonville in front of Pajaro Valley's Elizabeth Rodriguez in an 11-0 victory. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Paola Renteria heads the ball for Watsonville in front of Pajaro Valley's Elizabeth Rodriguez in an 11-0 victory. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
A wave face is transformed into a kelp mural as a kneeboarder makes the most of the swell off of Lighthouse Point on Wednesday. Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel
The largest swell of the season pours into Steamer Lane with head high to double overhead waves on Wednesday. While the wave size will decrease today and Friday the surf forecast calls for the west northwest swell to increase over the weekend bringing exceptional conditions to local breaks. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
A surfer shoots out of a wave at Steamer Lane as the swell much anticipated by locals arrived on Wednesday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Afternoon clouds streak an other-worldly skyscape on Monday in advance of the rain forecast for today as a boat passes the jetty lighthouse en route the open water of the Monterey Bay. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Arbor Art tree worker Curtis Ruiz finds himself branching out as his crew performs annual pruning on a maple at Bert and Lois Muhly's Walnut Avenue home in Santa Cruz on Tuesday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel
Chris Tremblay, right, gets a hand unloading lumber from his Felton workshop from his brother-in-law Joe Vicencio after it was smashed by a tree early Sunday morning. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
PG&E linemen Billy Russell, Matt Niswonger and Shane Collin sort through the tangle created when a large tree fell across Highway 9 south of Felton on Sunday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
PG&E linemen Billy Russell, Matt Niswonger and Shane Collin sort through the tangle created when a large tree fell across Highway 9 south of Felton on Sunday. PG&E linemen Billy Russell, Matt Niswonger and Shane Collin sort through the tangle created when a large tree fell across Highway 9 south of Felton on Sunday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
The pot of gold seems to be at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz as a rainbow colors the sky as a winter swell arrives on December 9. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
A rainbow arcs over Frank and Wilma Costa as they are pedaled over the West Cliff Trestle by Tom Horner on a ride around town for their 65th anniversary on Thursday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Pedicab driver Tom Horner negotiates downtown Santa Cruz traffic as he pedals Frank and Wilma Costa up Pacific Avenue during their anniversary ride on Thursday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Wilma and Frank Costa share a tender moment in Tom Horner's pedicab as they celebrate their 65th anniversary with a ride around Santa Cruz and dinner on the Wharf on Thursday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
An early look at the Sentinel's A1 for Nov. 30, 2010. (Photo by Shmuel Thaler)
Steam rises from frosted rooftops along Elzer Drive in Scotts Valley on Monday as the mercury in thermometers continued to drop. The National Weather Service listed local overnight temperatures in the low 30s, but actually above freezing. Why the frost on rooftops and ice on cars? National Weather Service Science Officer Warren Blier explains, that the temperature of the air at the level of the ground needs to be 32 to freeze, but official temperatures are taken from instruments located in instrument shelters located 6 feet off of the ground. Even if the official temperatures are higher than freezing, temperatures on the ground could be well below freezing. Also, surfaces that emit heat, such as metal car roofs, could get colder than the ambient temperature. The official forecast calls for a slight warming trend and rain probable on Thursday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Cal Fire Captain Don Luis extinguishes hot spots in the wreckage of the Lundberg Studios showroom in Davenport which was destroyed by a fire early Wednesday morning. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Fire captain Don Luis puts out hot spots at the Lundberg Studios showroom on Wednesday morning. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
PG&E meter reader Ryan Kitchen goes about his normal rounds in Davenport as firefighter Andrew Ziegler works the Lundberg Studios showroom fire on Wednesday morning. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Ian Larkin walks past the wreckage of the Lundberg Studios showroom in Davenport which burned in an early morning fire on Wednesday. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)