super media post II
Well, I'm off to France tomorrow. Sometimes it still doesn't feel like I'm going, but other times it feels much more final than simply returning to Boston for a semester. Anyway, that means it's time for a little more cross-posting from my Vox (parapluie_vox). Beware, dial-up users!
SAN FRANCISCO
Golden Gate Bridge under fog
To switch the direction of a cable car, the conductor has to manually push the car on a turntable.
On the Powell-Mason line
Palace of Fine Arts, left over from the 1915 World's Fair
Fisherman's Wharf
Linda, my tourguide in Chinatown, tried her hardest to explain Buddhism in only ten minutes.
The Chinese(-Americans?) take paper BMWs, servants, mansions and the like to the graves of their family. Burning these cardboard items sends the object to the other world for the relative to use.
Fortune cookie factory. My fortune: "Fu Ling Yu says: Window dresser is girl who doesn't pull down shades."
Dim sum in Chinatown.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
My grandfather tries chopsticks.
At the California Acedemy of Sciences.
At the California Academy of Sciences.
At the California Academy of Sciences.
The residents of Pier 39.
Golden Gate Bridge from below.
Sculptures outside the deYoung Museum of Art.
Japanese Tea Gardens
Koi pond
This little bird came to join us as we drank our tea.
Ittadakimasu!
At the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park.
Zeum Carousel at the Yerba Buena Center
Some random hill
EVERGREEN STATE FAIR
Lumberjack competition: chopping
Lumberjack competition: log rolling
Diana and I eating "famous" fair scones
Pygmy goat costume contest
All-Alaskan Pig Races
NIC'S VISIT
Outside the Burke Museum of Cultural and Natural History
Museum of History and Industry
Nic undressing me from the previous costume
Canoeing on Lake Washington
Bumbershoots at Bumbershoot
Catherine, Nic and Diana with snacks
Even babies listen at Bumbershoot
Nic with ferrets from a con man
Damon Gough of Badly Drawn Boy
Sunset at Pier 55
Refilling my waterbottle at a dim sum restaurant
We're too cheap to buy the photos they take
Sunset over West Seattle
Berries near the Big Four Ice Caves
Nic and I in an ice cave
Wall of an ice cave
OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS
A lily from Pike Place Market.
Near the ferry docks on Bainbridge Island.
Super Undies Mom
Across from my bus stop
Sunset over Monroe, WA
Cornfield near Sultan, WA
Barn and silo, Mann Road
Cows in pasture, Ben Howard Road
SAN FRANCISCO
Golden Gate Bridge under fog
To switch the direction of a cable car, the conductor has to manually push the car on a turntable.
On the Powell-Mason line
Palace of Fine Arts, left over from the 1915 World's Fair
Fisherman's Wharf
Linda, my tourguide in Chinatown, tried her hardest to explain Buddhism in only ten minutes.
The Chinese(-Americans?) take paper BMWs, servants, mansions and the like to the graves of their family. Burning these cardboard items sends the object to the other world for the relative to use.
Fortune cookie factory. My fortune: "Fu Ling Yu says: Window dresser is girl who doesn't pull down shades."
Dim sum in Chinatown.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
My grandfather tries chopsticks.
At the California Acedemy of Sciences.
At the California Academy of Sciences.
At the California Academy of Sciences.
The residents of Pier 39.
Golden Gate Bridge from below.
Sculptures outside the deYoung Museum of Art.
Japanese Tea Gardens
Koi pond
This little bird came to join us as we drank our tea.
Ittadakimasu!
At the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park.
Zeum Carousel at the Yerba Buena Center
Some random hill
EVERGREEN STATE FAIR
Lumberjack competition: chopping
Lumberjack competition: log rolling
Diana and I eating "famous" fair scones
Pygmy goat costume contest
All-Alaskan Pig Races
NIC'S VISIT
Outside the Burke Museum of Cultural and Natural History
Museum of History and Industry
Nic undressing me from the previous costume
Canoeing on Lake Washington
Bumbershoots at Bumbershoot
Catherine, Nic and Diana with snacks
Even babies listen at Bumbershoot
Nic with ferrets from a con man
Damon Gough of Badly Drawn Boy
Sunset at Pier 55
Refilling my waterbottle at a dim sum restaurant
We're too cheap to buy the photos they take
Sunset over West Seattle
Berries near the Big Four Ice Caves
Nic and I in an ice cave
Wall of an ice cave
OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS
A lily from Pike Place Market.
Near the ferry docks on Bainbridge Island.
Super Undies Mom
Across from my bus stop
Sunset over Monroe, WA
Cornfield near Sultan, WA
Barn and silo, Mann Road
Cows in pasture, Ben Howard Road