Waiting
Embarcadero and Kearny
Early sunset
The smoky conditions continue — our Air Quality Index (AQI) at 5 p.m. is 175, and the smell of smoke is everywhere. The almanac reports sunset today is at 4:52 p.m. — but the sun was already disappearing behind a thick bank of smog at four o’clock.
The Adventure Continues… Paradise
I chose this episode of California’s Gold in honor of the people of Paradise and Magalia, towns which have been devastated by a fast-moving wildfire that started near Camp Creek Road last Thursday. The town of Paradise is said to be 80% destroyed, and many people lost their lives in the first few chaotic hours of evacuation. I wanted to […]
Through the Golden Gate
Lights
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Lights.
Golden Gate garden
Last Friday, after spending about an hour wandering from the top to the bottom of Fort Point, I was happily surprised to discover all kinds of colorful flowers near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center. Even though I can’t identify them, they were just what I needed to see on this day when the sun was obscured not by […]
Fort Point lighthouse
Memory Monday, Week 91
I’m calling this week’s batch of images “Water Colors.” All but two were shot by me; I included those two, dating sometime around 1983, because they look like the sort of place I would love to go hiking. Originally I believed the location was the American River Canyon below Auburn, but on further inspection I decided it’s more likely somewhere […]