From the top of Sanchez Steps looking north up Sanchez, with the Castro on the left and the Mission on the right. No high rises in this part of town (yet).
Another lofty view, but this one from a vanished world, The Cedars of Lebanon by Edward Lear (also author of Victorian nonsense-rhymes). His famous limericks never earned much. Lear mostly supported himself as a landscape artist, selling watercolors and drawings of the Mediterranean world, mostly to English tourists. He painted more than 10,000 of these pleasing landscapes.
