Breaking through

Thin fog at 9am this morning near Rob Hill, SF CA.
Photosynth app on an iPhone

A coffeeberry grows in NoPa

A better kitchen

Cyprian's Community Kitchen Project from cyprianscommunitykitchen on Vimeo.


Good to see some friends here speaking up for a better kitchen and healthy eating habits. Please support!

A new sign marks a new beginning

Just revisited this picture and was kind of delighted to see how much
it captures.

A glimpse of the new El Polin

When the skies cleared this afternoon I visited the Presidio and got a view of the transformed El Polin area. Up the slope from the spring, and past the patch of restored habitat, a huge area has been freed from army-era landfill. The freshly contoured soil is now covered with the green fuzz of weedy grasses, sprouting quickly after the recent rains.

A great spot to see birds, El Polin did not disappoint. A flight of four American Kestrels took off from the brush when I neared a fenced off area. One came back and settled in a tall tree. What a spectacular bird.

In the meadow

We had a visit to Yosemite last weekend. The clouds were heavy Sunday morning.

Buckeye

So exciting finding this Common Buckeye (Nymphaliidae) this afternoon in the Presidio at El Polin