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India Basin

Pics from a visit to India Basin last week.

Derrick barge D.B. Alameda, on site at the shoreline park next door to drive piles for a future pier.


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India BasinHere are pics and a couple of short videos from Sunday's visit to India Basin Open Space, which is slated for development.  Groundbreaking is scheduled to begin this month, so we are making it a priority to keep visiting this place when we are in San Francisco as long as it's still an undeveloped open space to enjoy in undisturbed ( Read more... )

Shopping Carts: The Return

After a couple of blessed months of no abandoned shopping carts infesting the hallways, what did I see upon opening my door to take out the trash on Tuesday? 
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San Francisquito Creek -- The Fall

Finally, here are the pics from my November 14 return visit to San Francisquito Creek, when I fell in the mud and broke my shoulder.

The creek bed.


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San Francisquito Creek: Autumn Color & Stolen Safes

Sunday's visit to San Francisquito Creek in search of local autumn color led to a discovery of another cache of stolen safes.  I thought the safes discovered during our previous visit there were a fluke, but apparently not -- this stretch of the creek bed is seemingly a supermarket of safes ( Read more... )

Shopping Cart Infestation

A couple of months ago the management in my apartment building issued a memo to tenants about, among other things, all the shopping carts that have been infesting the premises recently:

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India Basin Open Space

Here are some pics from another visit to India Basin Open Space last Friday.

Looking across India Basin toward downtown San Francisco.


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San Francisquito Creek

Here are pics from a visit to part of the San Francisquito Creek bed (and nearby neighborhood streets) on Monday.

Looking upstream through a tunnel under Chaucer St.


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Baylands

Here are some pics from a visit to The Baylands Nature Preserve yesterday (I was too tired to take more than just a few).

A wooden post at the trailhead serves as an impromptu lost-and-found for someone's hair bow.


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