Archive for the ‘flandscapes & flanerie’ Category

~wanderlusty~

Thursday, June 6th, 2013

Since I left my childhood house 26 years ago I’ve moved 21 times, across countries and continents. Until we land next: ¡Viva los Vagabondos!

~the streets of San Francisco~

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

While fetching sandwiches from our neighborhood cafe to kickoff le big packing weekend, I received this Public Service Announcement from the streets of San Francisco.

~tea for three~

Saturday, April 20th, 2013

There was endless love at the Japanese Tea Garden today… everyone smooching, laughing, dancing tango, strangers interacting (my favorite team: homo couple and three middle school girls trading off snapping each others pics). Everyone just loving on humanity, myself and da goils (see last picture) included. Very much needed.

~nothing but blue skies~

Saturday, April 13th, 2013

Self-referential detail of cigar-smoking, pants-wearing, fire-chasing Lillie Hitchcock Coit’s Tower fresco.

Although Coit is the Matron Saint of S.F. firefighters and was an honorary member of the Knickerbocker Engine No. 5, the resemblance of the Deco tower to a fire hose nozzle is said to be purely coincidental.
San Francisco really showed off today, with breezy blue [...]

~it’s time to leave the west when…~

Friday, March 29th, 2013

you are photographed by NYT mag as typical residents of Bolinas: bourgeois bohemian/hippie holdout enclave of Marin.

~hide tide & green grass~

Monday, February 18th, 2013

When the not-truly-ironic mirrored aviators arrive, it’s time to say ciao Los Angeles!

~formosa cafe~

Saturday, February 16th, 2013

At the Formosa Cafe: Chinese food and Singapore Slings in the Red Car trolley across from the old Samuel Goldwyn Studio, aka The Lot. Plus Zsa Zsa!

~musso & frank redux~

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Self-portrait in 1919 mirror. Plus Alitini…

~valentines & views~

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

A one week trip to Laguna for my Grandma Edith’s birthday became two. Here are the love-drenched beginnings…

~greeting 2013~

Tuesday, January 1st, 2013

Took our New Year’s guest for a row around Stow Lake and a visit to the Beach Chalet, which has a fine maquette of Golden Gate Park (including the lake, below) and a WPA fresco mural painted by Lucian Labaudt in 1936.

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