sarah sosiak

Favourite Places - San Francisco

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I put together maps of some favourite places in various cities for friends planning trips, then heard that they'd found them useful and passed them on, so thought I'd share them more broadly. Click through to the larger maps for details. All are works in progress, I'll keep adding to them as a recall and discover more spots.

Currently lighter on detail than London. Apparently, most of what I do in San Francisco revolves around eating, drinking and buying books. (Yes, that sounds about right.)

No Fixed Address

At Ocean Beach.

Mixed Media

Composite of the car-turned-container-garden at Flora Grubb Gardens.

The Sunset Tree

Friday night's sunset, from Strawberry Hill.

Good Morning

Sunday morning with tea, a pecan bun from Arizmendi Bakery and the New Yorker.

Day at the Beach

 

I found this photo -- from a beautiful evening at Crissy Field last spring -- on my phone the other day. Now that we're deep into San Francisco "summer" (read: cold and foggy with a side of wind), it's living on my desktop as a reminder of warmer times.

de young

The de Young museum in Golden Gate Park, as seen from the roof of the Academy of Sciences.

(Best viewed large.)

bio-dome

Portals on the roof of the California Academy of Sciences. More shots of the building and its collection (including the two headed snake) here.

surfers*

Another great Sunday at Baker Beach.

* Correction: Thanks to Daisy, skimboarders, not surfers.

bridge & city

hot glass | cold beer

At Public Glass' Hot Glass | Cold Beer fundraiser.

Come on out and help us celebrate Halloween by supporting Public Glass. Select a hand blown drinking vessel, allow us to fill it and sit back to watch and evening of glass blowing demos by Bay Area artist Guido Gerlitz. Music by Loose Change Collective.

fog to the west

Serious fog rolling in over Twin Peaks tonight.

model city

Downtown San Francisco, looking across Union Square from an elevator in the St. Francis.

well, that's one less unexploded ordnance in the neighbourhood

Photo by Jim Herd/SFCitizen (via SFist)

Now I know what happens when your neighbours find a live WWII mortar shell while cleaning their garage.

Full-on bomb squad, bomb-removal robot, police barricades, warnings to go inside and stay away from the windows, etc.

Bizarre.

decay

The dining hall at Alcatraz.

San Francisco's been good for my fascination with decaying and abandoned buildings.

Looking through my photostream I'm surprised I have so few shots of Hill 88 and none of the Presidio Hospital or Sutro Baths. Must resolve that.

alcatraz

Photos from a trip to Alcatraz back in March are up on Flickr.

bay bridge approach

Looking south at Folsom and Beale. Finally starting to figure out the high-contrast black and white thing. Next, must learn to burn and dodge.

message in a bottle

Bottle -- and message -- from the Pirate Supply Store at 826 Valencia.

cole valley and beyond

Looking down from Tank Hill over Cole Valley, across the city, bay and into Marin.

cherry blossoms, redux

San Francisco's late round of cherry blossoms is in bloom.