Breathe in the Bay

It’s been over a month since my last trip out of town, and updating the blog gives me an excuse to re-look at those photos and post them. It has cooled off here in the San Joaquin Valley (under 100s) but it’s still warm enough to want to view the pictures of the San Francisco Bay and remember the cool breezes wafting in as we visited the Bay in August.


We picked up some coffee and bagels at Katz and headed over to the marina to watch the ships come in and go out.

I was about to take pictures of two sea gulls sitting on the sea wall when another gull hurried over to join the group for a group portrait. I offer the two pictures so you can see the brown one flying over to have his mug captured as well. It's almost as if the middle gull turned around to see if the darker one was coming (or maybe to hurry him up). Anyway, they posed as if they were sea captains standing on deck at full attention.

Of course there is always something happening in San Francisco but I wasn't prepared when the streaker came running up to us in the Castro, dressed only in a 4" by 8" sign (you can guess where that was hanging). I did catch the "ghouls" covered in "blood" walking downtown like the living dead--advertising a new vampire movie I was told.


I really regret my missed opportunity to take a picture of "camouflage man" who sat on the curb at Fisherman's wharf wrapped in branches of leaves, and "scaring" people by talking to them as they went by from his "hideout." (really hysterical)


But, I did capture silver man, though, (I don't know what else to call him). He is in the middle between the two poles which you will probably have to click on it to enlarge to see him).





Coming home I took this beauty of a shot of the Salinas Valley