San Francisco murals
Letters K and L
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. Ladderback chairs in the Lake County Museum:
Lands End Coastal Trail
San Francisco’s Coastal Trail at Lands End is popular with both tourists and locals for a very good reason — whether you’re out for a run or just strolling, the scenery is beautiful. There’s also plenty of history to be found. The western end of the trail used to be a trolley line connecting the Cliff House with downtown San […]
Indoor walkways
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Indoor Walkways, Hallways, Elevators.
Echoes of history
The haunting rooms and corridors of Fort Point in San Francisco, from my visit in November 2018.
Footsteps lead to destiny
I visited Japantown in San Francisco for the second time this past summer, and as I was strolling around before going inside the mall, I noticed this wonderful bronze and stone sculpture on Post Street. You can read the story behind the monument and each of the three panels here. The inscription on the third panel reads: Sojourners Visionaries open […]
Circles, Curves, and Arches
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Circles, Curves, and Arches.
Views from the tower
I’m always up for a great tower view, and the Harmon Observation Tower, part of the de Young Museum in San Francisco, was completely new to me. While admission to the museum itself is not free, tower access costs nothing — all the more reason to check out the scenery of San Francisco from eight stories up.
Transit Center
San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center officially opened in the late summer of 2018 — but only six weeks later it was shut down again, due to the discovery of cracks in the structural steel girders. Although I’d already seen the exterior on previous visits to the city, I finally got a chance to explore the inside this past August. I […]