Summer in the City 2010

Kaylie, Janyll and I had lunch at San Tung on Irving St.

 Grandma and Kaylie at lunch

What's taking so long?

 Kaylie paying for lunch

 Fortunes

After lunch, Kaylie, Janyll and I had a massage

 Kaylie after her massage

Then on to Pier 39

 Kaylie, Janyll and Liz and coffee

Peaches for sale at Pier 39

Janyll watching sea lions

Love the Red

 Eating clam chowder at Fisherman's Wharf

 Stuck in a light pole

Leaving Pier 39

 View from parking garage at Pier 39

 Headed back to San Rafael over the Golden Gate bridge

Janyll at Twin Peaks on a fall 2010 trip to San Francisco

"All Midwesterners adore San Francisco, the city of Sam Spade and the waterfront, the basso complaints of the big ships, the trolleys rumbling along Market Street, the Mediterranean colors of buildings, the river of fog in the Golden Gate, and the beautiful hybrid faces of young people.

Back where I come from, we mostly look like we walked out of a 1958 Sears catalog, but here, everyone is in a minority, and sitting outside a coffee shop, I'm struck by the handsomeness of this passing girl with Asian eyes, Hispanic cheekbones, Creole skin. An old bum stops at my table and I give him two bucks. He may be the reincarnation of a Gold Rush tycoon, one of the many who rose suddenly to vast wealth, built a fabulous mansion on Nob Hill, and died young of something we now have a pill for. He moves along and a tall dark-haired woman in Italian sunglasses passes, and he stops and turns, stunned by her beauty as she strides across Irving Street, gone from his life forever. You shouldn't come to San Francisco unless you're prepared to have your heart broken."

.....Garrison Keillor