Coit Tower is such a famous part of the San Francisco city skyline it’s hard to imagine it not being there atop Telegraph Hill. Yet as much as I love seeing the tower and climbing to the top for the amazing views of the city, it’s the murals in the lobby that I most wanted to contemplate on my recent […]
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is C words: Needs to be at least 4 letters in length. Feel free to use your native language as your inspiration for this challenge, just please give us the word in your language and the english translation. Use your imagination for this theme. Conductor: Citrus and Cactus: Cobblestones: https://www.flickr.com/photos/21865583@N03/36765277531/in/datetaken-public/ Canal — […]
With the combination of a beautiful natural setting, the lively waters of the Bay, and the iconic shape and color of the span, I really believe it’s nearly impossible to take a bad photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge.
When I was in San Francisco last week, one of the things I decided I had to see was a fairly nondescript intersection in North Beach. Maybe the reason was a little bit nutty — the TV show Monk (2002-2009). Of course, even though the series was set in San Francisco, very little of the actual filming took place there. […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 30, 2017. This week, share with us the structure of something typically overlooked. One of my childhood memories involves driving to the Bay Area to visit relatives; to get there and back we crossed over the Carquinez Strait near Vallejo via a pair of matching cantilever bridges, one for […]
With all the hiking I do around Lake Natoma, I’ve gotten to be in pretty good physical condition, and climbing hills doesn’t bother me too much. In fact, I enjoy the challenge, and it’s always a healthy aerobic workout. But it never occurred to me last Monday when I decided to trek all the way down and then back up this steep hill along the Fair Oaks bluffs that I was in training for some of those crazy hills in San Francisco a couple of days later.
The Johnny Cash Trail Overcrossing in Folsom opened in late 2014, and I finally got around to having a good look at it!