Peenie Wallie: San Francisco: While You Were Out

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March 4, 2011

San Francisco: While You Were Out

Above: View from Twin Peaks looking NE along Market.

Above:A grouping of Calla lilies (of the Araceae family). Calla lily is the common name for the zantedeschia genus, a genus of twenty-eight different species all native to the southern parts of Africa.

Above: Calla lily.

Above: Agapanthus, the only genus in the flowering plant family Agapanthaceae. Predictably, the botanists can't make up their mind on anything, so there are somewhere between 6 and 10 species, all native to Africa.

Above: View north from Cascade Walk near Funston Avenue and Pacheco Street. St Anne of the Sunset Church with Inner Sunset district and Golden Gate Park in background.

Above: Grand View Park.

Above: Looking north across the Inner Sunset district, Golden Gate Park, fog rolling in over the bay, Marin County Headlands in the background.

Above: Praying Mantis downtown at the corner of Hyde and O'farrell.

Above: Wheat-paste graffiti downtown along Hyde Street.

Above: View east from Twin Peaks.

Above: View of Market Street from Twin Peaks.

Above: This is me in Tortilla Heights with a margarita at this chick's birthday party. I'd just returned from Petaluma with the bike, which is why I look like homeless person. The sign is the sign I held out by the observation area at the South end of the Golden Gate Bridge. I was trying to hitch a ride north to Petaluma, but for some reason, the "I WON'T KILL YOU" sign didn't work.

Above: The magic carpet that transports me through the nightmare of San Francisco. I say it's a nightmare because of the complexity of the transportation grid. The buses, cable cars, bicycles, pedestrians, ambulances, fire trucks, motorcycles...you name it.

The guy that sold me this bike had put a "lowering link" on it, which is what short people do, of course. So it sits a little lower than it should. I'll see if I can't get that straightened out. This photo was taken in front of a little taqueria on Van Ness that I frequent. I've taken to ordering "tortas" instead of "burritos", as they're much better, IMHO.

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