A friend informed me that the heat wave is worse this week along the East Coast than it was last week when I was in DC and complaining (repeatedly and loudly) about the heat. That is the bad news. The good news is that July in San Francisco is running true to form (so far) and the supply of fog is abundant. It is ideal weather to encourage wandering outdoors. Below are some of the random foggy sights encountered by one encouraged wanderer.
This miraculous yellow plant has no leaves and no companions. It grows out of a fenced-in patch of bare ground alongside an empty lot next to a school.
Dog-Eared Books in the Mission put up one of their hand-drawn memorial window cards for Louise Bourgeois who died just over a month ago at the age of 98. Her obituary points out that she reached age 70 before receiving a major museum retrospective. But nobody can doubt that she would have persisted, with or without recognition.
Wrapped coffee house, open for business on Dolores.
July 2012 update – That large and beautifully rounded ficus tree in front of the wrapped coffee house no longer exists. One day the city of San Francisco came and cut it down and that was the end of it. Needless to say, the corner now looks thoroughly desolate.