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Photography Places

Look what they’ve done to my walk

I walked around my old San Fran home near the Bay Bridge this morning. In particular I wanted to see what they did with the park they were finishing along the Embarcadero by my place. Oh. My. God. The park itself is rather nice, with simple green hills and flowers and nice chairs for people […]

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Photography Places

Last digital postcard

Tomorrow I take off for home, and as I’ll have no time to play along the way, this will be my last digital postcard for this trip. I spent this morning making one last visit to Dog Beach (Crissy Field/Golden Gate), to the Ferry Building and the Embarcadero, and yes, even to the Big Damn […]

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Writing

Sensualist

  The world that lieth in wickedness, the sensualist, has no taste nor relish for that bread which cometh down from God out of heaven, and nourisheth the soul up unto eternal life. Thomas Lechtworth, They that wait upon the Lord Roget’s Thesaurus defines a sensualist as a person devoted to pleasure and luxury, a […]

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Photography

Today’s digital postcard

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The fog was out today, but not so heavy that it triggered the fog horns on Golden Gate. Too bad, really – the fog combined with the horns is unique and one of my favorite experiences. No dogs on Dog Beach. It looks like pooches are now banned in an […]

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Just Shelley

Moving to the beat

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I spent the morning pulling boxes and furniture down from piles and placing the items into the storage unit’s hallways. I opened several boxes and pulled out some favorite books I didn’t want to lose – Gravitation, The God Particle, Vision, Botticelli’s Dante, which I picked up at the show in London, and my […]