From top:
- Berkeley
- Sutter St., birds waiting for the bus
- Euro 08!
- Valencia & Market
- latest commentary
summer accessorizing
no cars go
the blog...
is admittedly recently neglected! Very sad. However, after a brief holiday we'll be back, I promise. Early next week...
orienteering
stay hydrated
Record-breaking temps of 97 degrees in the city today!
Today I bought a fan.
heat wave!
The temp hit the high 70s today in the city, with some significant humidity. Higher temps predicted for tomorrow; what in the world am I going to wear to work?!
Its generally pleasant here, but I have to say I miss Weather.
spwing!
From top: - velvet da vinci - cityscape/morrissey! - (kramer/eraserhead) furniture delivery van @ soma - commuting @ financial district - downtown, construction
in honor of earth day
During our visit to SFO a couple of weeks ago, we noticed the United ground crew(s?) at our particular terminal cruising around on bikes! Did they ditch the golf carts? Is this a greening attempt of sorts? We thought it was relatively recent development, as everyone seemed to be having quite a good time riding in circles around the parked planes.
emerging
(Exiting BART at Civic Center)
The last week and a half has found me working furiously on a project, head down, headphones on. Its been a long stretch here at the kitchen table, with much NPR for company. Sadly, it makes for less-then-scintillating blog fodder. Sorry about that! Things are looking up. Soon I'll start venturing out of the house again, and things will become (hopefully) much more interesting here.
dancing on the jetty*
(*This is one of my favorite songs to run to. Love, love it.)
Started my day with a jog down to Fort Mason, along the water, out and back along a little jetty just north of Ghirardelli Square. The jetty/pier is basically just a winding stretch of concrete, littered with trash, grafitti, and signs prohibiting the catching of Dungeness crab (we saw someone get busted by the Crab Police last week).
It encloses an expanse of water in front of Ghirardelli Square and the maritime museum, and sometimes you'll see (crazy) people swimming laps there. For the most part this morning it was just me and a collection of pigeons and saucy sea gulls. No swimmers, but there were a couple of small sailboats out.
This is a good part of the run. No hills, just straightforward out onto the water. I like the hardness and non-quaintness of the pier. And when you get out to the end, you can look towards the city in one direction:
And towards the GG bridge in the other direction (if you squint you can just make it out in this photo. Its the reddish thing):
And in between there's Alcatraz (which I didn't get a shot of this am), making the 360 view a sort of 'best of.'
**Pls pardon today's image quality: all action shots taken from my trusty little Sanyo phone. !.
"was it worth it?"
Today is the 5-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, and San Francisco (like other cities) marked the occasion with a day-long series of protests. We woke up this am to a traffic update: a warning against trying to navigate through the financial district due to crowds, protesters and police. And I have to admit I wondered out loud (as the significance of the date didn't occur to me), what are they protesting? (hangs head.)
Arriving downtown shortly after 9, we missed the first big events of the day. I did, however, run across these three guys:
They were lip-synching "Bomb Iran" (to the tune of "Barbara Ann") and other songs, and were totally entertaining, in a jib-jab sort of way. Later on at lunch I wandered down to the "die-in" at Montgomery and Market St., where there were two-dozen people sitting in the intersection, surrounded by easily three- to four- times as many officers. And a brass band (which I *think* was trying to pull off a Rage Against the Machine cover at one point, A for effort...)
More events were planned for this evening throughout the city. J pointed out the protesting he saw was pretty mild; it did seem the police presence was the most stunning part of the day, but we definitely were only on the fringe of things. And of course I left the house this morning without my 'real' camera. You think I'd know better.
time for new toothbrush
and in the distance:
Wonderbread.
life is good
Sunday drive with headphones, pink car and buddy.
wednesday night, almost home
what day is it again?
Rainy cold Monday, and we both had the day off due to the MLK holiday. After making sure J's brother caught bart to the airport, we walked around downtown a bit and did some window shopping. There was also a coffee break in there too.
stroll
After a couple of weeks of rainy winter weather, a beautiful weekend here...
From top: - banana-colored Vespa - urban jungle - coffee shop and blue chairs
outside of safeway
ride 'em alligator!
downpour
It's been raining cats and dogs and elephants over the past few days. In a different part of the country, this would be a blizzard; as it is, "winter storm" translates to wind and rain here in the Bay Area (though higher elevations are indeed seeing lots of snow). Excitement since Friday has included the scaffolding blowing off of buildings in a couple of areas of the city; bus, ferry, bart service and flights from SFO all suspended or delayed at various times; bridges closed after a couple of trucks were blown over; the zoo closed because there were lots of tree branches down that might contribute to animal escape (!); huge waves and beach erosion in areas south of the city. Not a fun couple of days, especially for people without power or with tree limbs crashing through their roofs, but very exciting. It's a good time to stay inside and work on rearranging the bookshelves.