Pioneer Monument near City Hall — Minerva with a friend

I always enjoy photographing statues during my visits to San Francisco — and of course I found plenty of them at the historic Mission Dolores. I was also pleasantly surprised to realize the figure of Francis of Assisi was created by Benjamino Bufano; he was the artist responsible for the Peace Obelisk found at Timber Cove in Sonoma County. That 93-foot-tall tower is actually California’s second smallest state park (after the Watts Towers in Los Angeles).

St. Michael Archangel

California Volunteers Monument, Dolores and Market

St. Francis of Assisi

The statue above, created by Bufano