Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts

7/7/14

Vallejo Street Steps

Vallejo between Montgomery and Kearny is too steep for cars, so it has stairs instead of street. And, guess what, you guys? The stairs have been planted.
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My office is about 6 blocks south of here, and I frequently pass this way at lunch. 

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Today I brought my camera. 

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For you.

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Would be great to have a big hydrangea garden, for cuttings. (Unless you're Madonna, of course. She absolutely loathes hydrangeas.)

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Maybe she's in to succulents. Succulents are the hip thing now.

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I'm just more in to flowers. 

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Oh, hey. Those leafy gray spikes on the left? Echium wildprettii. It seemed like the it-plant while I was in grad school. I saw it everywhere. It was the it-plant in my garden back in spring 2008

Anyway, check this out:

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There's at least 3 volunteers in that little clump. I wonder how that's going to work out!

The view near the top of the garden. 

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Cool, overcast, and breezy today. But I'm sweating like a dog climbing all these hills and stairs. 

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No, dogs sweat with their tongues. "Their tongue"? No, I wasn't sweating like that. I was sweating like a horse.

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The older I get, the more I sweat.

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I'm not in to it at all.

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Looks like you missed your chance to buy this fixer-upper...

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Could you live in a house without a street in front of it? Or, do you already? 

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Anyway, I need to wrap this up. 

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Time to get back to work. 

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(No, I do not work at the Federal Reserve.)
















12/22/11

Seen in the Mish

I brought my camera w/ me when I dropped my car off for an oil change and tune-up. Welcome back to the Mission District.

Black, green, red and blue.

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Why can't it just be a garden?

I don't know why it can't just be a garden. Obviously, the plan has changed since 1996. None of these plants are "local". Take the sign down too. It wears me out.

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J'adore the Nipponesque port-a-potty enclosure.

Nipponesque port-a-potty

Dolores Park is under long, long overdue renovation.

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Are those Phoenix canariensis, or P. dactylifera? I'm inclined to think the former.

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Needs more lines.

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Sidewalk beautification has really taken off in the Mission. Of course, I am thrilled.

Variegated Agave attenuata

I think the giant Aeonium is Aeonium undulatum.

What's the giant Aeonium's name?

Regrettable streetlamp.

It's not easy being green, Bernal Hill.