Emeryville at 50mph

Took this photo at twilight through the closed windows of a car--well, a bus.

Killer flowers

A colleague just sent me some flowers from a really accomplished local florist. Not ordinarily my thing, big-money floral arrangements, but I gotta say these things were just gorgeous. I spent 20 minutes bumping around on saturday afternoon trying to take a decent photo of them in the afternoon light.

A Wedding & a Trip to the Zoo -- All in One!

Went to a fantastic wedding this weekend in SoCal. Apparently, it was traditional in the bride's family (they're from I think northern India) for the groom to come in on an elephant, and then the wedding party forms kind of a conga line in front of the elephant. So here we are in the parking lot of the hotel, doing our Bollywood thing. And I got to pet the elephant a bit--the hide is incredibly tough and rough and bristly, it feels like a brillo pad!

O Arkansas, Part II

Just what I needed for Christmas--a little churchgoing. This is a shot of St. Paul's in Fayetteville, Arkansas, which has a lovely but unpretentious sanctuary. You can't make it ou in the picture, unfortunately, but the ribs supporting the vault have these little trellises of intersecting support members underneath them--they are very slightly reminiscent of the chapel designed by the local (and very well known) architect Fay Jones. Wonder if he went to church at St. Paul's? www.thorncrown.com/Photogal...ndex.html

O Arkansas, Part I

I love this place, it's on the road from the NW Arkanasas Regional Airport, which probably has, btw, the most beautiful road going to and from any airport in the country. You feel like you're on the way to church camp--chugging along an old two lane road, and you pass, in Cave Springs, the ever-lovely Stuff Mart. Hard to tell if this is ironic or not, but it's good for a chuckle from city slickers like me.

Cal Shakes

well, it' s always sad to go to the last cal shakes play for the season (As You Like It) , but I found this sign pretty funny. first, as is half of all shakespeare comedies don't involve cross dressing! and second, as if the bathroom is the right place to let people know about this!

Secrets of the City, Part I

Working downtown these days (at www.zopa.com), I'm amazed at how much stuff is actually packed into a few square blocks. this is a picture of the 15th floor of i believe 353 Sansome. The owner of the building has declared the 15th floor terrace to be open to the public, and so you can take your lunch up there and sit underneath a little tree and forget about your cares for half an hour. Not bad!

The Blue Hour at Citizen Cake

in the summers, from something like 5pm to 7:30pm, Citizen Cake, in Hayes Valley in San Fransicsoc, draws curtains across its huge west-facing exposure and they blow around a little in the draft, and give the whole room this kind of arabian tent feeling. Then, at 7:30 or so, they pull the curtains back and you get a lovely view of the parking garage across the street. Oh well!

Cool Floors at Boccadillo's

there's a nice place in my neighborhood (downtown SF) for lunch called Boccadillo's. A little gimmicky, but I do like the trick where they encase 4-5 bottles of wine in the floor.

Dulles Is Still Not Dull

Modern architecture is so often full of bluster--gimmicks of all kinds, really, things that make no real sense--and then there's Dulles. I took this picture after a long redeye and it was totally worth it to step out into the main terminal. A marvel, really, in the best sense of the word.