Bleak subject for today's photo, a watchtower along the perimeter of San Quentin Penitentiary. I was working in the city yesterday, the ferry goes by the prison. In there somewhere is California's Death Row for men, with almost 700 prisoners sentenced to death, though nobody has been executed in a decade. Not clear whether executions will resume or not. Interesting look inside from January of this year.
It's always jarring to see the prison, bleak and desolate in the middle of some otherwise pretty scenic coastline.
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A wet grey morning in Golden Gate Park, this is one of two windmills there, the Murphy Windmill, built in 1905. Both mills drew ground water from a debt of 200 feet to fill the various lakes in the park. They were almost immediately replaced with electric pumps and so fell into disuse quickly. They've been restored multiple times since.
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The Sawyer family huddled together for more than a century at the Military cemetery on Mare Island, Vallejo, California.
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What's left of the supermoon appears along the the "Avenue of the Giants", Humboldt County, California.
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De Young Museum, San Francisco.
I love looking at people looking at stuff... not sure why.
Roy Lichtenstein, Painting with Statue of Liberty, 1983. Oil and Magna on canvas. The work is part of the Modernism exhibition showing until October.
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