Before San Francisco closed several main roads to vehicular traffic in its largest park – Golden Gate Park – Melody and I used to park near the Dahlia Garden, as the Conservatory of Flowers is just up the stairs from there – also to look at the dahlias. These two young women were sitting on a bench in the Dahlia and Arizona Garden area. Just had to photograph them for two reasons – their distressed jeans and their preoccupation with their cell phones.
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I made this photo of a pretty garden alongside a home in a neighborhood close to ours in San Francisco's outer Mission. My guess is I stopped and got out of our car to capture this image, as this area is not somewhere we would normally walk, even back in the summer of 2017 when I made this photo using a Canon Powershot SX50.
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I met Ginger when a friend and I took a trip to Idaho to visit a long time friend in the Hell's Canyon area. My traveling companion liked to visit local shops and urged me to stop at a Rock and Fossil shop on Highway 95, about 120 miles from our final destination. That was when I met Ginger short for Virginia. At that time Ginger was 78 years old and living with her husband behind their rock shop that was located in the front of their country home. I visited her at least once a year for the next decade and one half. After a few years, Ginger invited me into her home that was through a door in the back of her shop. I made this photo of Ginger's cat in the summer of 2008, during a planned stop on my way to Riggins, Idaho. Ginger was a lovely woman, very short, and a great letter writer. Both Melody and I exchanged letters with her often. The last few months before she died, she would write to us a couple times a week.I captured this image using a Canon Powershot A650, one of the cameras I used in those days. Rest in Peace, Ginger.
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I made this photo of a group of tiny daffodils growing on the steep grade of the Athens Avalon Greenspace next to the 99 tiled steps in our neighborhood near the end of February 2024. Looking at my photostream, I see that I posted a photo of tiny daffodils taken a month before in a different location during our daily walk. Well, the early year is time for daffodils; and they are out in force – in small front gardens as well as this community garden. Shot using my Canon Powershot SX50.
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Though much of John McLaren Park is lush and fertile, having once been hilly cattle country in the very early days of San Francisco, Much of the 313 acres is wild and rocky. I made this photo of a single dandelion flower that was hanging out onto a very rocky path through the park. There were many other of these pretty yellow flowers in the area, but I decided to photography this one by itself at fairly close range, using my Canon Powershot SX50.
Many consider dandelions weeds. They do cover yards and hillsides during a rainy winter without being planted. They are not. The entire dandelion plant is edible, flowers, leaves, and roots. It is also medicinal. Pretty, too.
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