About a year ago I wrote about another one of the local corner stores biting the dust. Well, I was a bit premature with my elegy for the lost market. As it turns out the store has been revived under a new name and I assume under new management. The Russian Hill Finest Market actually [...]
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of my favorite places along the California Coast. It’s amazing how much thought has been put into making this one of the great museums of the world. The sheer amount of content within its walls is staggering. You could easily spend a day just reading all the panels and [...]
My parents are currently visiting and we took them up to Napa on a daytrip to some of the wineries. We’ve been to Napa many times, but this must have been the first time for us early in the year and we were not prepared for how glorious the rapeseed is blooming all over the [...]
Another shot taken with my Kodak Retinette 1A on TMax 3200. This camera has a f2.8 aperture and so it is barely possible to do handheld no-flash night shots with fast film like this. I love the graininess of the resulting prints quite a lot, so don’t be surprised if there are going to be [...]
San Francisco is blessed with hundreds of little convenience stores and there is barely a block that doesn’t have its own. Many of them are open late and they are often the last hope when the there are more party guests than expected or when that one crucial ingredient is running out while cooking late. [...]
Walking to work and home is some of the best time of my everyday life here in San Francisco. Our company moved offices last year and my commute has been drastically extended – from about 1.5 kilometers one-way to more than 3 kilometers one-way. I now walk every day across Nob Hill, parts of Russian [...]
The always excellent and interesting Telstar Logistics site has a great article about the vintage San Francisco streetcars and the people who keep them going. San Francisco’s F Line streetcars can be seen in their vintage color schemes all across downtown on Market street and along the piers on Embarcadero all the way to Fisherman’s [...]