Outdoors
Seen A Colony Of Crabs
September 25, 2011
"So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs."
--Patti LaBelle
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Been To The Crissy Field Overlook
August 02, 2011
"One day if I do go to heaven~ I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'"
--Herb Caen
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Hiked Angel's Landing At Zion National Park
June 17, 2011
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Gone Outdoor Rock Climbing
June 16, 2011
Seen The Grand Canyon
June 14, 2011
“It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.”
--Jack Schmitt, American Astronaut
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Seen Andy Goldsworthy's “Spire” In The Presidio
June 06, 2011
“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.”
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Taken The Golden Gate Ferry To Sausalito
May 22, 2011
Gone To Earth Day On The Bay At The Marine Science Institute
April 16, 2011
“We declare that the proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.”
--Barry Commoner, American biologist
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Visited The Japanese Tea Garden
April 03, 2011
Today was a gorgeous day. It was mild outside, and I wanted to take a walk to Golden Gate Park. One of the places I’d always wanted to check out in the park is the Japanese Tea Garden. Originally built as part of the World’s Fair in 1894, it’s the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States.
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Splashed In Rain Puddles For Fun
February 17, 2011
One of the benefits of having a project like this is that I can use it as an excuse to act like a kid again and experience something that I never got to when I was younger. J couldn’t believe I had never done this before. What kind of a kid never plays in the rain and makes a mess of puddles?
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Gone To The Botanical Garden At Strybing Arboretum
February 13, 2011
Golden Gate Park is awesome, and it’s amazing how much of it I haven’t seen. A few years ago, J and I went to the New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park, but still I had never been to our own Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum. I made a plan to come here and check it out in the afternoon.
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Run From Home To Work
February 01, 2011
This morning, I ran to work. While it’s not what I’d consider a super long run, it’s a little hilly in parts. I live in between the Castro District and Twin Peaks areas of San Francisco, almost directly in the center of the city. I work in the Presidio at the Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC), near the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Biked Across The Golden Gate Bridge
January 14, 2011
One of the benefits of working in the Presidio is that you are very close to some of San Francisco’s awesome views and landmarks. A splendid view of the Palace of Fine Arts (recently re-opened, by the way) is not far, and Crissy Field is a short walk away.
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