Alviso: Yellows

Here are Monday's pics from Alviso, where the interesting trail we wanted to go on turned out to be closed for a couple of years for the salt pond restoration project, so we went in the less-interesting direction instead, and saw a lot of yellow things ( Read more... )

Warm Water Cove

Here are pics from a visit on Monday to Warm Water Cove in San Francisco.

It's a beautiful mild spring-like late winter day, and wild radish is in bloom.


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Spreckels Lake

Here are a very few pics from a Monday visit to Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park.  It was mostly overcast, chilly and damp, and there was little reason to linger there long.

Spreckels Lake.


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Baylands

Here are some pics from Monday's visit to the Baylands and Duck Pond, because Byxbee Park was so crowded both parking lots were full and the Baylands was the nearest place in that area that had an open parking space.

The duck pond.


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Candlestick Point Gull


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Monday Movies: Heermann's Gull

Monday Movies: 20 seconds (more or less) of video from the world around me.

This week: Twenty seconds of a Heermann's gull on a beach near the Wave Organ in San Francisco.

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Wave Organ

Here are some pics from a visit to the area around San Francisco's Wave Organ (which was a rather underwhelming auditory experience) on Monday.

The huge container ship Seaspan Adonis slowly sails past after entering the Golden Gate.


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Heron's Head Park

Here are some pics from a visit on Sunday to Heron's Head Park in San Francisco.

Looking southeast across India Basin toward Hunter's Point.


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Candlestick Point

Here are some pics from a visit to Candlestick Point State Recreation Area on Monday.

Sweet alyssum is in bloom everywhere.


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Baylands

Some pics from another visit to the Baylands Nature Preserve on a wintry Sunday.


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