Continue Reading Cornucopia of Culture You could probably live in San Francisco for a decade or more and not exhaust all of the cultural options. The sheer…
Continue Reading Birds of a Feather Birds of a feather, and loners. Time to share some the birds that hopped or flew across my way while in San…
Continue Reading The Golden Gate Before there was the bridge there was the strait. Its name was chosen in 1846 by Captain John C. Frémont in analogy to the Golden…
Continue Reading Local Color Let’s end the week with a mix of colors, captured on these strangely sunny October days. Many come from plants. Some come from houses. I…
Continue Reading Home of the SF Giants I know nothing about sports. If you asked me if the Giants played basketball, football or baseball I’d have a 33% chance…
Continue Reading The Holocaust Memorial, San Francisco. All you see is a male torso seemingly looking out from behind barbed wire, when you approach on foot. No signs, no…
Continue Reading The De Young Museum (2) So much for good intentions. I really mean to keep my prejudices in check, but when I learned many months ago that…
Continue Reading The De Young Museum (1) So much for good intentions. The plan for the de Young museum building to turn – literally – bright green in color…
Continue Reading The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Other than my son’s and my apartment, the doctor’s office and the pharmacy, I have not been anywhere inside a building in…
Continue Reading Yerba Buena Gardens In what seems another lifetime, I used to go to San Francisco for psychology conferences, or to attend the opera, or, as…
