I suppose one “benefit” of being poorly organized is that occasionally you stumble upon photos you had forgotten to share. These are images from my visit to San Francisco Botanical Garden back in August 2021. I’ve explored this beautiful garden in Golden Gate Park two or three times now — always during the late summer — and I never get […]
Traveling east from San Francisco to Sacramento in August 2024 on Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor train — no matter how many times I make this trip, I never get tired of looking out the window.
Back in August I shared some of the images I shot during my visit to San Francisco’s Maritime Museum Visitor Center. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first walked into the building, but it wasn’t long before I was wandering very happily through the numerous exhibits which included ship models, interpretive displays, historic photographs, and cherished artifacts from […]
I found so many amazing sights during my visit to Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Although I did have some trouble finding my way to the site of this landmark in the Mission District, once I arrived all that was forgotten; I wandered through the original mission, the “new” basilica — completed in 1918 — and the attached cemetery. Although […]
Every now and then a couple of my interests will happen to coincide in ways I never expected. That happened recently after my fascination for Chinese history and California history brought me to read Heather B. Moore’s novel The Paper Daughters of Chinatown (published in September 2020). Although in novel form, the story, set in San Francisco of the late […]
Today I thought I would share a few images that I managed to overlook from the past year or so. Every now and then I’ll upload an image to my Media Library and then forget to insert it into my blog post, and that’s the case with the first three photos. I especially love the view of the Mendocino coast […]
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 […]
I may have posted similar views of some of these Pacific Heights houses before, but I never get tired of gazing at this turn-of-the-century architecture — steep gables, enthusiastic gingerbread, rounded turrets, and vast covered porches. Even some of the less ornate structures exude a certain historic charm, especially when contrasted with the modern buildings surrounding them. Very few of […]
I didn’t seek out the Mission Francisco de Asis looking for flowers. And while most of the photos I shot on site were of the church and the cemetery, I couldn’t help stopping to admire the colorful blooms I discovered in and around the grounds of Mission Dolores. Most were in the churchyard, but I also found Geraniums and Impatiens […]