~inspiration point~
Friday, August 27th, 2010Berkeley day including hike around Inspiration Point in Tilden Park. Gonna check out the native plant sale at the botanical garden in spring…
Berkeley day including hike around Inspiration Point in Tilden Park. Gonna check out the native plant sale at the botanical garden in spring…
View from lunch at Nepenthe, named for the mythical drug inducing a forgetfulness of pain and trouble, from Homer’s Odyssey.
We left a Jay feather for the Buddha hidden under the bridge in the Forest of Nisene Marks. This was the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake–we lived less than ten miles from it at the time. Today we had a birthday walk for La Noria, and Jessica collected many chanterelles. Lovely.
DELORES PARK!
STOW LAKE!
OCEAN BEACH!
MISSION DELORES!
VIRGEN DE SWEET POTATO!
DAVID’S NEW HOME AND NEW HONEY!
TWO OF MY FAVORITE MEN, SAD TO BE PARTING…
WE LOVE SAN FRANCISCO!
The comparison was already floating through my mind, of Amsterdam with San Francisco. The cafes, the bohos, the acceptance of people as they are–and a certain air of self-acceptance that comes from living in a Mecca of so-called tolerance.
And, so I had read, Amsterdam even has it’s own refurbished Deco movie house, Pathé Tuschinski.
Then [...]
Will you take me as I am–strung out on another man–California I’m coming home.
A lyric quote from Joni Mitchell can only mean one thing–
I spent a few days visiting Noria at the Marin Headlands where she is an artist in residence. It was gorgeous.
Northern California still has a strong pull on my heart. As N [...]