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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Dinnertime — Lemon Tart at the Museum
Lunch is Lemon Tart with a coffee chaser. Across the Music Concourse, the California Academy’s roof garden is green and beautiful in the brilliant spring sun. I’m having a snack while I wait to visit the Oscar de la Renta … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Travel
Tagged #oscardelarenta, iPhone, San Francisco, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Future — Our future is before us
Treasure Island Job Corps students ignore the Saturday rain and take selfies of San Francisco. Today, I grabbed the camera and headed out to take some rainy day photos — the photo above was taken on Treasure Island. April is poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged postaweek, San Francisco, Sara Teasdale, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot — A Good Read
WTF–the novel introduces the reader to SineCo, an international digital search company that is planning to kidnap and hold for ransom all the data that you and I have given to social media, banks and governments. The massive SineCo computers … Continue reading
