A Tomato Grows in the Inner City

Victoria Manalo Draves Park is located at Folsom and Columbia alley near 6th and Folsom in San Francisco. It has a small garden next to the basketball courts

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San Francisco invests in homeless drunks circa 1950

Article from Newcastle Morning Herald, Australia, Saturday, December 29, 1950 courtesy of the Australian National Archives

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tip of the Golden Gate

The tip of the Golden Gate Bridge peaks above the fog while Sutro tower in San Francisco is in the distance

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Golden Gate fog from Mt Tamalpais

Looking south from Mt Tam towards San Francisco and the Penninsula. The hills in the background are the San Mateo coast range and that is a turkey vulture from June 2013

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Jerry Day 2015 – Melvin Seals and JGB

Melvin Seals and JGB, Jerry Day, Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, Mclaren Park, San Francisco, August 2, 2015

complete show from the sound booth

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Grand View Park

A fine view of the outer Sunset in San Francisco from Grand View Park

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Hiking Angel Island

Some of the best views of San Francisco Bay are right in the middle of the bay on Angel island State Park

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Homeless at Oliver Peoples Jewelry

Oliver Peoples Jewelry, near Union Square in San Francisco May 7, 2015, 2am

extreme wealth and poverty in one shot

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garbage ringing the San Francisco Bay after storms

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on some rare fossil finds as a result of the recent storms around San Francisco, but there's a darker side and that is the sheer amount of garbage and trash that is now ringing the San Francisco Bay like a giant bathtub ring. This is on the Bay Trail just north of the San Francisco airport and in an environmentally sensitive area

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modern biking in the Presidio of San Francisco

Ain't technology wonderful?

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